Released 15 June 2009 Length 49:36 Artist We Were Promised Jetpacks Label Fat Cat Records | Recorded Earth Studios, Odiham Language English Release date 15 June 2009 | |
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Producer Ken Thomas, Joylon Thomas, Peter Katis These Four Walls
(2009) The Last Place You'll Look
(2010) Genres Indie rock, Post-punk revival Indie rock albums In the Pit of the Stomach, Forget the Night Ahead, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Wi, The Midnight Organ Fig, The Winter of Mixed Drinks | ||
These Four Walls is the debut studio album by Scottish indie rock band We Were Promised Jetpacks, released on 15 June 2009 in the UK, and on 7 July 2009 in the US by Fat Cat Records. The band recorded the album at Earth Studios in Odiham, Hampshire, England with producers Ken Thomas, Joylon Thomas, and Peter Katis. Four singles were released from the album: "Quiet Little Voices" in May 2009, "Roll Up Your Sleeves" in June 2009, and the double A-side single "It's Thunder and It's Lightning" and "Ships With Holes Will Sink" in November 2009. Following the album's release, an EP of alternate recordings and unreleased tracks entitled The Last Place You'll Look was issued in March 2010.
Contents
We were promised jetpacks it s thunder and it s lightning
Release
On 15 June 2009, the band celebrated the album's release with an acoustic performance at Buchanan Street HMV, and performed the album in its entirety at Glasgow's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut later that evening.
Track listing
All songs written by Adam John Thomson.
- "It's Thunder and It's Lightning" – 4:48
- "Ships With Holes Will Sink" – 3:22
- "Roll Up Your Sleeves" – 4:16
- "Conductor" – 5:28
- "A Half Built House" – 2:41
- "This Is My House, This Is My Home" – 3:17
- "Quiet Little Voices" – 4:21
- "Moving Clocks Run Slow" – 4:56
- "Short Bursts" – 4:40
- "Keeping Warm" – 8:12
- "An Almighty Thud" – 3:34
Personnel
Songs
1It's Thunder and It's Lightning4:48
2Ships With Holes Will Sink3:22
3Roll Up Your Sleeves4:17