Blog: State Magazine

Good timing can prove crucial when releasing a first album and Edinburgh's We Were Promised Jetpacks couldn't have timed the release of their debut LP These Four Walls much better. In the post-breakthrough hiatus of Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad, indie aficionados have been pining for another tartan-clad troupe upon which to pin their adulation. So fresh from successful releases from their aforementioned FatCat label mates now it's the turn of the Glaswegian four-piece. The album bursts open with bristling opening track, 'It's Thunder And Lightning'. Appropriately titled, it begins with a single chain-sawing guitar [...]