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[Howlette]

First off it’s Let Airplanes Circle Overhead whose self-titled debut begins with a squall of feedback before the drums kick in. Featuring improvised instrumental played on guitar, bass and drums the band have a hypnotic power that lifts them above the ordinary and draws comparison with Kinski, My Bloody Valentine, and Thought Forms...

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[Mt. Ben]

As the sprawling soundscapes of bands like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Labradford and Godspeed You Black Emperor! have already proven, there's so much more to music than just hitting those melodic choruses with clockwork precision and trotting out the same structured songwriting formats over and over again. Music can be just as much about setting up moods and feeding the imagination, creating moody atmospherics and melancholic ambience. LET AIRPLANES CIRCLE OVERHEAD are another band who are aware of this, delivering instrumental walls of sounds from guitars, drums and effects pedals - using shifting dynamics and constant changes in direction to engage and inspire.

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[Mt. Ben]

Culling their name from the W.H. Auden poem “Funeral Blues”, Let Airplanes Circle Overhead compose majestic post-rock soundscapes that will find Explosions In the Sky looking over their shoulder...

EDITORS PICK

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[Mt. Ben]

Let Airplanes Circle Overhead are another band that fall into that lazy label 'post rock'. Which simply means the band excel in making giant sound scape type music. The band hail from Newcastle and are all 18 years old. The band record sprawling instrumentals that veer between clean and gentle sounding guitars to a feedback laden noise - where to all it could sound like the walls are falling in on you...

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[Mt. Ben]

Let Airplanes Circle Overhead: May as well, you're not going to hear the massive machines - LACO play their respective instruments as if attempting recapture what Hans von Ohain did with jet engines on record. Appropriately titled band & album (formerly referred to as As An Enemy) and the song titles ("Fury against the formless", "Pengatross") hold true as well. "Fury against the formless" (as with many of these songs) takes very little time (around the 1:00 mark) warming up the turbines and forcing waves of intensity through your listening post.

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[Mt. Ben]

The three 18-year-olds have taken the road less travelled, treading in the footsteps of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Mogwai, Sigur Ros and Oceansize.

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[Mt. Ben]

I’d have to say that at certain times I can be quite churlish and petty and my assumption that I’d never again enjoy a record squarely placed in the “post-rock” encampment might be coming back to bite me on the arse if there are more bands of Let the Airplanes Circle Overhead’s calibre lurking in the undergrowth.

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[Mt. Ben]

The first CD I received and reviewed from the rather lovely new innovative label known as Motive Sound Recordings was a Carlisle based post-rock band known as ctrlaltdelete, and this peaked my enthusiasm for the new label. So when this new Let Airplanes Circle Overhead CD arrived and it was tagged with sounding similar to the roster of the ever-prolific Constellation Records again I was eager to give the EP a whirl...

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[Mt. Ben]

This debut album from the fresh-faced Northeast instrumentalists belies their tender years...

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[Mt. Ben]

The world is a noisy place. By simply walking down the street or sticking your head out of the bedroom window you expose your ears to a rich tapestry of sounds. Car horns are softly tooted by octogenarian couples in recognition of old friends, birds purr lullabies to the trees, an out of tune piano warbles across a deserted metropolis like a hay bale blowing through a frontier town. Or if you live in South-East London, pimped-up Renault 5s blast out Usher albums at full volume, tramps ask you if you've got a spare Mayfair and huge Neanderthals urinate in doorways while insulting you for clambering into a pair of blue corduroy flares that morning.

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[Mt. Ben]

The thing that really stuck out at me is that each member of this band are only 18. It makes me feel little old. Let Plans Circle Overhead are a Carlisle based band and this album their first commercial release for the very promising Motive Sound Recordings...

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[Mt. Ben]

This is the debut album from three 18-yr old instrumentalists who cut their teeth rehearsing in a shed in Newcastle, and it’s not a bad effort on the whole.

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[Mt. Ben]

rocksound magazine (january 2006, issue 80)

If you want to see the purest form of Jealousy manifest itself on the face of a post-rock playing / loving friend, point them in the direction of Let Airplanes Circle Overhead. Yes, the name’s clunky, but the fluidity of their music belies their youth – the band’s core members are only 18 years old apiece. This album bears influences from both sides of the Atlantic – Constellation-style acts echo throughout, and the conventional quiet / loud segments are a ringer for a certain Scottish outfit when they could turn all newcomers into tearful obsessives. That said, many of the memorable moments here owe more to Mono than Mogwai – ‘Rwanda’ builds, swelling like waves nearing their foam-crested peak, before erupting like the Japanese masters of emotive instrumentals at their fiery finest. Now, be sure to pick your mates jaw up, won’t you?

7/10

- Mike Diver

[Mt. Ben]

The modus operandi of Let Airplanes Circle Overhead appears to be to improvise for hours, get something interesting out of it and build songs around that. This is a method that is strangely similar to the good old jam that musicians have been doing for years. Apparently LACO seem to think that their approach is unique. Whatever...

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[Mt. Ben]

e bent je jong en je wilt wat. Deze gevleugelde uitspraak lijkt uitstekend van toepassing op de drie Engelse snotneusjes van Let Airplanes Circle Overhead. Het eerste plaatje van deze band, rond drie jongemannen van zo’n 18 jaar oud, is uitgebracht door Motive Sounds. Een eveneens erg jong Engels label, dat het vooral zoekt in de alternatieve en experimentelere hoek.

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[Mt. Ben]

Opening with a quiet roar of feedback as though firing up an engine, this self-titled release proves that Let Airplanes Circle Overhead is appropriately named.

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[Mt. Ben]

kerrang! magazine (january 21 2006, issue 1091)

Considering the term was originally coined to describe bands questing into unchartered territories, post-rock has crystallized into a genre with a well worn set of trademarks, all of which – lengthy “songs”, alternative passages of somber beauty and coruscating noise, absolutely no singing – are present and correct on this debut from Carlisle trio Let Airplanes Circle Overhead; however, for a band of 18-year-olds, their command of the form is impressive, and while the opening ‘Pengatross’ wears their influences on its sleeve, theres a punky exuberance present which sets the band apart from the genres more austere exponents.

KKK

- Olly Thomas