| Jets Overhead | |
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| Origin | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Genres | Ambient rock |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Microgroove Records Vapor Records Warner Music Canada |
| Website | Official Website |
| Members | |
| Antonia
Freybe-Smith Adam Kittredge Jocelyn Greenwood Piers Henwood Luke Renshaw |
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| Former members | |
| Brendan Pye | |
Jets Overhead are a Canadian rock band who formed in 2003 and are based in Victoria, British Columbia. The band have at present released two full-length albums, as well as one EP and a compilation disc.
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Jets Overhead provide their debut self-titled EP and their first album, Bridges, for free download on their website as it is their view that in the current day and age, with pirating and illegal peer to peer (P2P) networks for downloading music free of charge, it is easier to provide the music in a free form themselves (though the option is given to buy the album at the regular price or make a voluntary donation). They appear to be one of the first bands to have addressed the difficulties of modern day music and what they call the "digital revolution", employing the voluntary purchase and download model a year and a half before the British rock group Radiohead more famously did it in October 2007 with their album In Rainbows.
After discovering that their most recent album, No Nations, had leaked onto certain file-sharing websites, lead singer Adam Kittredge responded in a positive way, saying, “We aren’t that concerned about it, because at our level, it’s kind of actually flattering to think that people think it’s worthwhile to so-called ‘steal’ our record before it’s released. It really doesn’t matter to us at this level of the game and maybe it won’t ever – maybe it shouldn’t.”
The band has not repeated its original voluntary purchase model for the 2009 release of No Nations. However elements of the album have been made available through the band's website under a Creative Commons license.
Jets Overhead's first proper release was their self-titled debut EP, "Jets Overhead" in 2003, which was followed in 2006 by the band's first full studio album, the critically-acclaimed Bridges. Jets Overhead's first release charted at a respectable #42 on the CMJ music chart in the United States, making a considerable mark for their first release. Also, Bridges received generally favourable reviews, and eventually led to the band receiving their first Juno nomination for 'New Group of the Year' in 2007. An instrumental version of "Bridges" has been made available free-of-charge through the band's website.
In 2007, the group digitally released a compilation album named Lost Melodies, which featured demos of four tracks from the first LP, remixes of two tracks from their debut EP and two previously unreleased b-sides. On June 2, 2009 the band's second full-length album, No Nations, was released on the Microgroove label.
The bass player plays a Rickenbacker bass through Ampeg SVT cabs, which provides the distinctive sound to "Heading For Nowhere", one of the band's better songs, that currently features on satalite radio XM channel 87 "The Verge." Heading For Nowhere has haunting and lush female backup vocals from the keyboard player. HFN is one of those songs that is melencholy, yet leaves the listener with a good feeling.
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