Video: We Were Promised Jetpacks - It's Thunder and It's Lightning, New York & SXSW, March 2009

Having already released what is arguably one of the best debut albums of 2009 " These Four Walls ," We Were Promised Jetpacks are ending the year with the release of Double A-Side ' It's Thunder And It's Lightning/Ships With Holes Will Sink ,' two tracks that really open up what We Were Promised Jetpacks are about, showing their growing potential and the undeniable passion and ferocity with which they attack their craft. Album opener ' It's Thunder And It's Lightning ' shows a deftness and the sleight of hand that [...]

At night we dream of the interview with a band who advocates overthrowing the government, setting things on fire or waterboarding Sean Hannity.  So it's with a sense of disappointment when we get nice, polite musicians who only want to talk about their craft.  When we first listened to We Were Promised Jetpacks, our first thought was "I want a shirt".  Our second thought was that there's nothing better than a band who takes the ideas of Franz Ferdinand and updates them with better songwriting.  Imagine our chagrin when we found this extremely young Scottish band to be excruciatingly polite.  [...]