Jetplane Landing - 'Els Quatre Gats' (Small Town America)
4/5
By: Toby L
Recorded with as much skill as needed when the compulsion arises to brew a cup of tea, what Jetplane Landing may lack in LA studios and high-profile producers, at least they make up for in immediately haphazard, riff-happy arrangements that should justifiably see them rise by the end of the year in the UK nu-rock revival as spearheaded by such acts as Hell Is For Heroes.
From the opening inaugural shudder of 'Acrimony' - complete with a sumptuous 'GO!' from vocalist Andrew Ferris at which point the frantic rush of sound becomes even more, well, frantic - it's particularly the exuberant guitar-interplay and trashiness of 'Lights Out', a cross between Seafood's 'Cloaking' and The Strokes' only hard-tune, 'Take It Or Leave It', that dazzles, whilst the drum-driving throttle of 'My Fundamental Flaw' and Pixies-pace, bass-groove of 'An Upheaval' can only serve to heighten the reasons why you need this EP.
Sounding as subtle as their name depicts them to, Jetplane Landing may still lack a true high-profile, but with enough incessant touring blasting the high-quality likes of this racket, there's a multitude of reasons why music-fans should be willing to grapple their speakers with the sonic-heaviness of this well-calculated mess in years to come.
Artists in this article: Jetplane Landing
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