Having already released what is arguably one of the best debut albums of 2009 "These Four Walls," We Were Promised Jetpacks are ending the year with the release of Double A-Side 'It's Thunder And It's Lightning/Ships With Holes Will Sink,' two tracks that really open up what We Were Promised Jetpacks are about, showing their growing potential and the undeniable passion and ferocity with which they attack their craft.

Album opener 'It's Thunder And It's Lightning' shows a deftness and the sleight of hand that We Were Promised Jetpacks often use to their advantage throughout their debut album. Calmly chiming in with little guitar licks that gently have the track built around them with a ratcheted guitar, flicked xylophone, and vocalist Adam Thompson's raw Scottish throttle screaming "Your Body was Black and Blue - I have to say goodnight / I'm leaving before your punching out my lights" as the drums crash in around everything before settling back into an almost dystopian groove; a groove which We Were Promised Jetpacks will continue to unleash at unexpected intervals.


'Ships With Holes Will Sink' again goes for the slow burn method that inevitably leads to something a lot more explosive with Thompson wailing "I think I died this time" creating the cheeriness! But the track really does have a tempo to it that resembles something of the 80's Postcard scene if it were savaged repeatedly by Stuart Braithwaite and Co. It's infectious like everything We Were Promised Jetpacks do.


Track-listing:
1. It's Thunder And It's Lightning
2. Ships With Holes Will Sink

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