Jets Overhead

Artist Information

Biography

Sometimes a casual cool someone offers to take the next cab, because this one's full. It makes sense, and you feel partly grateful but partly wistful because you were secretly looking forward to sitting squished right up next to them in the back of a cab.

BYSTANDER, Jets Overhead's new digital EP, is that casual cool someone. The songs, recorded back during the original studio sessions for our last album, NO NATIONS, have been patiently waiting to arrive in the next cab, and now they're finally here. There's so much to tell them. So much has happened since we left them behind!

In the past two years, we have been invited to play all over the place – at seminal festivals including Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit, and the World Expo in Shanghai. We've heard our songs charting nationally at rock radio in Canada and being played on influential American stations including KCRW and WXPN (World Café). Meanwhile, other songs have journeyed bravely into TV land, appearing in major network shows like House, Bones, and Pretty Little Liars.

But we left these extra songs from BYSTANDER behind for a reason: we wanted to keep NO NATIONS succinct and we wanted to keep some melodies in the vault to surprise you. The songs from NO NATIONS are limber, satisfied, a little road-weary but wise, and thinking of making a midnight snack. The songs from BYSTANDER are crackling with energy from their wait, giving us a little head's-up and a smack while we dig in to write our third full-length album during 2011. BYSTANDER is wistful, impatient and natural: reminding the band where we came from and whispering a riddle about where we've always wanted to go.

Instrumentation

Adam Kittredge - Vocals, Guitar
Antonia Freybe-Smith - Vocals, Keyboard
Jocelyn Greenwood - Bass, Vocals
Piers Henwood - Guitar, Piano
Luke Renshaw - Drums, Vocals

Discography

Bystander EP (2011)
No Nations (2009)
Bridges (2006)
Jets Overhead EP (2003)

Links

• Facebook
• MySpace

Audio

• Bystander
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• Heading For Nowhere
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• I Should Be Born
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• It's Not Up To Me
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• Sure Sign
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• No Nations
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• Seems So Far
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• It's a Funny Thing
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• Fully Shed (Kevin Hamilton remix)
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• All The People
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Video

I Should Be Born (Video)

Heading For Nowhere (Video)

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Press

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  “Yet another band to watch from Canada, this five piece deliver a fantastic no nonsense indie rock a...“Yet another band to watch from Canada, this five piece deliver a fantastic no nonsense indie rock album in which every track seems to be a gem. Influences clearly range from the Dandy Warhols to Arcade Fire, Elliott Smith and even some Pink Floyd, and even through the trance rock parts, the hooks and melodies give it a real sheen and style.”
  Rough Trade (London, UK)
  
  “Boasting ‘a hypnotic take on trance rock,’ and bearing a certain Velvet Underground-iness, Bridges is an impressive, easygoing and mood-altering experience with a nostalgic feel that is a calculated combination of accomplished musicianship and intelligent production (courtesy of 54-40's Neil Osborne). Wanna trip out a bit? Spark a pinner and queue up Shadow Knows and White Out.
  The Hour (Montreal, Canada)
  
  "Bridges has slowly become my favorite album of the year. Because of its playability! I can put it on and it sets me free from the bullshit of life. Yet, it also rides shotgun when I'm excited and soothes me. It fits SO MANY moods. I can just put it on an endless loop and play it for hours!”
  The Lefsetz Letter
  
  “Tunes of infectious diversion and notable inspiration...swirly vocals, bursting guitar refrains and beautiful mid-song changes”
  NOW Magazine (Toronto, Canada)
  
  “Impossibly cool Canadians who readily admit to having Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, and The Who in their collection”
  Hot Press (Dublin, Ireland)
  
  “Some of Canada's — actually, I'll go out on a limb and say America's (North, Central, and South included) — finest rock. With influences ranging from The Mamas and the Papas to Pink Floyd, Jets Overhead's majestic sound gets me in the mood to grab a lighter, seat cushion, and cash to burn and cuddle up for a full-on rock show.”
  3hive (USA)
  
  "Fine listening for transatlantic flights."
  Georgia Straight (Vancouver, Canada)
  
  
  

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