Photos of We Were Promised Jetpacks from SXSW 2022 in Austin, TX
QRO’s review of We Were Promised Jetpacks at The Orpheum in Tampa, FL on February 16th, 2020
Photos of We Were Promised Jetpacks at Terminal West in Atlanta, GA on July 28th, 2019
Photos of We Were Promised Jetpacks at Terminal West on October 20th, 2018
QRO’s review of We Were Promised Jetpacks at The Bluebird in Bloomington, IN on March 27th, 2012
Photos of We Were Promised Jetpacks at 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX
Photos of We Were Promised Jetpacks at Terminal 5 in New York, NY on October 13th, 2010y
QRO’s review of We Were Promised Jetpacks at Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, OR on March 3rd, 2010
Photos of We Were Promised Jetpacks at Music Fest NW 2009 in Portland, OR
When We Were Promised Jetpacks came up over a decade ago on Scotland’s Fat Cat Records, they were often compared to the fellow tragic countrymen/label-mates Frightened Rabbit at The Twilight Sad. Time & acts have moved on, and WWPJ have evolved without losing their sad ways – and even evoke some other great comparisons with latest, Enjoy the View.
It can be weak commentary to compare one act to another, but there are just so many excellent comparisons to be made with View. Opener “Not Me Anymore” has the higher beauty of Bon Iver. The following “Fat Chance” has a press bringing to mind The National. The atmospheric intimacy of “If It Happens” calls up Broken Social Scene. And carrying closer “Just Don’t Think About It” has the slower sadness of WWPJ’s earlier work.
Enjoy the View obviously an ironic title, as this is an album of melancholy and loss. But one can definitely Enjoy a band doing it so well.
