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We Were Promised JetpacksThese Four Walls (ltd color LP)

Opening with a lone guitar line that itself has all the momen-tum of entire genres crammed into a single set of chords, We Were Promised Jetpacks’ These Four Walls signifies a debut album that has the sort of peerlessness and potential to stand as a mainstay and luminary of indie music in the 21st century.

Three albums on those words we wrote about We Were Promised Jetpacks debut album still ring true, and now this landmark of the band’s career is finally available in the US on LP. Long a sought after collector’s item, the original LP had a scant pressing that appeared only as imports at the time of its release in 2009. Now the album, full of explosive energy and knife-edge tension, packed with a bounty of fans’ live favorites; is returned to vinyl and all the better for it.

The band’s youthful energy (their average age at the time was 21) explodes thunder-ously as colossal choruses fall unfailingly into place. Every space is filled, tension bristling achingly in Thompson’s vocal delivery as the rest of the band crashes around him with a perfect balance of force and harmony. The romanticism and accessibility of a pure pop sensibility is never hidden too deep. Both “Roll Up Your Sleeves” and “Quiet Little Voices” capture this beautifully and immediately. The product of Ken Thomas’ (Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins, David Bowie etc.) studio mastery and Peter Katis’ (Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, The National etc.) mixing, the recording of These Four Walls was almost entirely live, with only minimal overdubs, and the band members’ collected passion and intuition is translated into a pure, precise form, at once powerful and delicate.

Never willing to overuse a melody, the precision and ability of We Were Promised Jetpacks’ songwriting is often most clearly evident in their song structures: intertwin-ing, serpentine, effortlessly stirring, dynamic and intuitive. Even the album’s quietest moments (see the Jesus And Mary Chain guitar tones and electronica-braced, icy sprawl of “A Half-Built House” or the patient orchestration of “Keeping Warm”) are just as enveloping, just as deafening as the enthralling indie that pulses thrillingly through its loudest crescendos.

File Under: Rock

Territory Restrictions: Not Available to U.K. or Europe

Release date: 5/20/16

TRACKLISTING1. It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning2 Ships With Holes Will Sink3. Roll Up Your Sleeves4. Conductor5. A Half Built House6. This Is My House, This Is My Home7. Quiet Little Voices8. Moving Clocks Run Slow9. Short Bursts10. Keeping Warm11. An Almighty Thud

FAT0072LPUPC: 600116997296Box: 30Vinyl is non-returnable

Grey Vinyl Limited to 1000

*Catalog combined has sold over 70K units*First time US pressing on vinyl*First pressing on limited (1000 pieces) grey vinyl

Key Points

*WWPJ songs have appeared in numerous feature films, TV shows, video games as well as ESPN, NFL on FOX, etc.

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