We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

Sounding like a perfect combination of Frightened Rabbit and Silent Alarm-era Bloc Party, Scottish band We Were Promised Jetpacks outperform somewhat other seemingly uninspired bands with their debut, These Four Walls. It opens with the epic opener, "It's Thunder and It's Lightning", which starts like Bloc Party's "Helicopter", but ends more along the lines of "This Modern Love". Other highlights include the Interpol-esque "Quiet Little Voices", the moving "Moving Clocks Run Slow", and the slow, brooding "Conductor". A great record, but its slightly repetive nature hints that there is plenty of room for improvement, which would easily catapult them to indie rock stardom.

4 STARS.