People in Planes - new album released July 2009

People in Planes dynamic album ‘Beyond the Horizon’ will be released in the UK on 6th July on Wind-up Records via ADA Global.

Fresh from supporting Funeral for a Friend, People in Planes have become essential listening for those in the know. With attention from BBC Radio 1, XFM, BBC 6 Music, NME TV and Kerrang! TV, their incredibly tight, seamless guitar anthems dazzle with interlaced guitar riffs and drumming bass lines. It is no surprised that these boys from Cardiff have garnering awe-inspiring comparisons to Radiohead, Pearl Jam and Muse. They also supported The Stereophonics in the States and Biffy Clyro in the UK before Christmas, plus are very excited about playing Download this summer.

The album was produced by Dan Austin (Doves, Massive Attack), and also in conjunction with outfit Eleven, longtime collaborators with Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Queens of the Stone Age, and producers of acts such as No Doubt and Josh Homme. Eleven member Natasha Schneider sadly finally succumbed to cancer this year, and it is to her the new album is dedicated. She made a huge impact on the band.

Bassist Kris agrees that the intensity of the experience at Rockfield Studios in Wales really helped them drum out an album of precision and intensity. “Recording in the countryside puts you in a totally different headspace to the busy hectic City life. Personally I would opt for the country every time, less distractions and it’s a better way to clear your head and stay focused for longer.” The band was hungry to improve on their sound and move forward. “We re-wrote parts of the songs to make them as perfect as we could,” muses frontman Pete. “It was painstaking at the time but looking at it now from a distance, you reap the rewards I think. Blood and guts went into it.”

Listening to Beyond the Horizon you can’t help but be drawn in to a raft of tunes; the resounding emotion of ‘Pretty Buildings’, the pensive progression of ‘Evil With You’ and its infectious guitar riff, the urgency of ‘Mayday’ and the incredible seductive saunter of ‘Last Man Standing’ all blend to make an album of resounding quality that melts into sonic liquidity.

People in Planes are Gareth Jones (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Peter Roberts (guitar, vocals), Kris Blight (bass), John Maloney (drums) and Ian Russell (keyboard).