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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

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.

  1. "It's Thunder and It's Lightning" – 4:48
  2. "Ships With Holes Will Sink" – 3:22
  3. "Roll Up Your Sleeves" – 4:16
  4. "Conductor" – 5:28
  5. "A Half Built House" – 2:41
  6. "This Is My House, This Is My Home" – 3:17
  7. "Quiet Little Voices" – 4:21
  8. "Moving Clocks Run Slow" – 4:56
  9. "Short Bursts" – 4:40
  10. "Keeping Warm" – 8:12
  11. "An Almighty Thud" – 3:34

Personnel

  • Adam Thomson – vocals, guitar
  • Michael Palmer – lead guitar
  • Sean Smith – bass
  • Darren Lackie – drums
  • Ken Thomas – producer, recording, mixing ("A Half Built House", "Short Bursts" and "An Almighty Thud")
  • Joylon Thomas – producer, recording, mixing ("A Half Built House", "Short Bursts" and "An Almighty Thud")
  • Peter Katis – additional production, additional recording, additional instruments, mixing
  • Greg Giorgio – additional mixing
  • Alan Douches – mastering, mixing ("A Half Built House", "Short Bursts" and "An Almighty Thud")
  • dlt – artwork
  • Sounds on "A Half Built Home" taken from The Conet Project

    • Songs

    1It's Thunder and It's Lightning4:48
    2Ships With Holes Will Sink3:22
    3Roll Up Your Sleeves4:17

    References

    These Four Walls (We Were Promised Jetpacks album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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