We Were Promised Jetpacks - Unravelling
Scotland is a hell of place if you love music (and whiskey) without pretense. So many artists, so many radically different sounding artists: Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Arab Strap and Belle & Sebastien. Hell, even the Bay City Rollers. They might share a homeland but that's about it. We Were Promised Jetpacks--like The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit--are the inheritors of this iconoclastic tradition. Their 2009 release "These Four Walls" was a remarkable freshman record that evoked the arty roughness of their post-punk forebears Josef K, The Prats and The Fire Engines. I still listen to that album. Strand me on an…
