UPC: 093624975601
Format: CD
Release Date: Jun 23, 2009
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Personnel: Adam Kittredge (vocals, guitar, ARP synthesizer); Jocelyn Greendwood (vocals, guitar, bass guitar); Adam Kittredge, Jocelyn Greenwood (vocals, guitar); Antonia Freybe Smith (vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer organ); Antonia Frebey Smith (vocals, Fender Rhodes piano); Luke Renshaw (vocals, ARP synthesizer, drums, percussion); Luke Renshaw (vocals, drums, percussion); Piers Henwood (guitar, piano).
Additional personnel: Ryan Clayton (lap steel guitar); Darren Glover, Neil Golden.
Audio Mixers: Malcolm Burn; Mike Fraser.
Recording information: Eldorbud Place, Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada; Joe King Hall, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada; Miramontes Drive, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Seacoast Sound, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; The Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria, British Columbia, Cana.
Jets Overhead's second album, 2009's NO NATIONS, is a pleasant, gently trippy throwback to the '90s shoegaze scene filled with waves of guitars, dreamily hazy vocals, and sweetly sung melodies. The band also adds layers of vintage keyboards, including the rarely used ARP Solina, to create a warm and comforting sound. Vocalists Adam Kittridge and Antonia Freybe-Smith blend together nicely, sounding at times like a brother and sister singing together at a family get-together. NO NATIONS is an unfailingly "nice" record--not a note is out of place, no voices are raised, the tempos are firmly set at mid, and the general feel is that of a meandering stroll along a winding country lane. A slightly melancholy stroll, at times, as songs like "Weathervanes (In the Way") and "Time Will Remember" have a longing quality that gives the record some depth below the shiny surface. It wouldn't be a big surprise if the band owned a copy of Starflyer 59's classic neo-gaze album LEAVE HERE A STRANGER somewhere in their collection back home in Victoria, Canada. Probably some albums by the Radar Bros, too. Like those bands, Jets Overhead takes spacy shoegaze guitars and blends them with classic singer/songwriter song structure and end up with an inviting and peaceful sound that is easy to swallow.
Additional personnel: Ryan Clayton (lap steel guitar); Darren Glover, Neil Golden.
Audio Mixers: Malcolm Burn; Mike Fraser.
Recording information: Eldorbud Place, Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada; Joe King Hall, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada; Miramontes Drive, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Seacoast Sound, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; The Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria, British Columbia, Cana.
Jets Overhead's second album, 2009's NO NATIONS, is a pleasant, gently trippy throwback to the '90s shoegaze scene filled with waves of guitars, dreamily hazy vocals, and sweetly sung melodies. The band also adds layers of vintage keyboards, including the rarely used ARP Solina, to create a warm and comforting sound. Vocalists Adam Kittridge and Antonia Freybe-Smith blend together nicely, sounding at times like a brother and sister singing together at a family get-together. NO NATIONS is an unfailingly "nice" record--not a note is out of place, no voices are raised, the tempos are firmly set at mid, and the general feel is that of a meandering stroll along a winding country lane. A slightly melancholy stroll, at times, as songs like "Weathervanes (In the Way") and "Time Will Remember" have a longing quality that gives the record some depth below the shiny surface. It wouldn't be a big surprise if the band owned a copy of Starflyer 59's classic neo-gaze album LEAVE HERE A STRANGER somewhere in their collection back home in Victoria, Canada. Probably some albums by the Radar Bros, too. Like those bands, Jets Overhead takes spacy shoegaze guitars and blends them with classic singer/songwriter song structure and end up with an inviting and peaceful sound that is easy to swallow.
Tracks:
1 - I Should Be Born
2 - Heading for Nowhere
3 - Weathervanes (In the Way)
4 - No Nations
5 - Sure Sign
6 - Time Will Remember
7 - Fully Shed
8 - Always a First Time
9 - It's a Funny Thing
10 - Tired of the Comfort
2 - Heading for Nowhere
3 - Weathervanes (In the Way)
4 - No Nations
5 - Sure Sign
6 - Time Will Remember
7 - Fully Shed
8 - Always a First Time
9 - It's a Funny Thing
10 - Tired of the Comfort