These Four Walls is the debut studio album by Scottish indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band We Were Promised Jetpacks

We Were Promised Jetpacks

We Were Promised Jetpacks is an indie rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland, comprising Adam Thompson , Michael Palmer , Sean Smith and Darren Lackie...

, released on 15 June 2009 in the UK, and on 7 July 2009 in the US by Fat Cat Records

Fat Cat Records

Fat Cat Records is an independent label based in Brighton on England’s South Coast. Their output includes electronica, post rock, indie, downtempo, minimal techno, noise and punk-pop...

. The band recorded the album at Earth Studios in Odiham

Odiham

Odiham is a historic village and large civil parish in the Hart district of Hampshire, England. It is twinned with Sourdeval in the Manche Department of France. The current population is 4,406. The parish contains an acreage of 7,354 acres with 50 acres of land covered with water. The nearest...

, Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 with producers Ken Thomas, Joylon Thomas, and Peter Katis

Peter Katis

Peter Katis is an American record producer, engineer, mixer and musician.Working primarily out of his own residential studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Katis is best known for producing alternative and indie rock bands, especially for Fat Cat Records.-Biography:Katis attended New Canaan Country...

. 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

The Last Place You'll Look

The Last Place You'll Look is an EP by Scottish indie rock band We Were Promised Jetpacks, released on 9 March 2010 in the US and Canada, and on 12 April 2010 in the UK and Europe by Fat Cat Records....

was issued in March 2010.

Release

On 15 June 2009, the band celebrated the album's release with an acoustic performance at Buchanan Street

Buchanan Street

Buchanan Street is one of the main shopping thoroughfares in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. It forms the central stretch of Glasgow's famous shopping district with a generally more upmarket range of shops than the neighbouring streets: Argyle Street, and Sauchiehall Street.-History:...

 HMV

HMV

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, and performed the album in its entirety at Glasgow

Glasgow

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's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut

King Tut's Wah Wah Hut

King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, also known as King Tut's, is a live music venue and bar in on St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned and managed by Glasgow-based gig promoters DF Concerts...

 later that evening.

Track listing

All songs written by We Were Promised Jetpacks.

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
  Peter Katis
  Peter Katis is an American record producer, engineer, mixer and musician.Working primarily out of his own residential studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Katis is best known for producing alternative and indie rock bands, especially for Fat Cat Records.-Biography:Katis attended New Canaan Country...
  
   – 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
  The Conet Project
  The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is a four-CD set of recordings of numbers stations, mysterious shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with spies "in the field"...