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Dezember… – Panik! Ein Jahr geht zu Ende und als hätten wir es nicht kommen sehen, müssen in Windeseile endlos lange Rankings mit den besten Platten der letzten 12 Monate zusammengestellt werden. O... Read more

The Water Of Leith is running blue with fresh Scottish blood, ready to nourish the flourishing music scene in Edinburgh. Not literally, I should point out. Although the Scottish capital has a thriv... Read more

Begin september stond We Were Promised Jetpacks in de bovenzaal van Paradiso. Een broeiplek voor nieuw talent en de zaal was duidelijk trots op de vangst, de aankondiging op de Paradiso-website was... Read more

Regardless of what music rags you tend to follow, you're going to inevitably get the comparison between We Were Promised Jetpacks and fellow Scotsmen the Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit. It's l... Read more

A musical climate where emphasis is laid primarily upon experimentation — discovering a new sound, pioneering a new aesthetic — can lead to a body of music that lends itself to purely i... Read more

You'd be disappointed if you were promised a jetpack and didn't get it. You shouldn't be disappointed by the debut full-length from this Edinburgh quartet.We Were Promised Jetpacks have drawn compa... Read more

Scotland is a sad, but epic place, with dashed heroes like William Wallace and Bonnie Prince Billy, who died on its sweeping moors while fighting – and falling to – the perfidious Albion to the sou... Read more

There must be something in the water up there, as the debut by Fat Cat’s latest signing from Northern Britain attests. Like their compatriots and labelmates Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetp... Read more

Of course, the brogues give it away, but figuring out that We Were Promised Jetpacks come from Scotland requires no effort. The dense production overkill of Glasvegas is there in a diluted form, as... Read more

I remember vividly the promise of a space age future as presented by Disneyland when I was a child. The park's second version of Tomorrowland promised us a bold and daring future, one where we coul... Read more