Jets Overhead

Genre: Rock
Secondary Genre: Alternative Victoria, British Columbia Canada Contact

"The band's lush, driving rock is the bristling, slightly psychedelic offspring of the likes of Radiohead and Pink Floyd.” -Los Angeles Times.

New EP "BYSTANDER" out now.

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)

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Audio

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I Should Be Born (Video)

Heading For Nowhere (Video)

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Press

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