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low flying planes

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Headpops 04:27
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Heaven 01:45
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Hair Soft 02:50
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All My Love 03:08
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What 02:06
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Beautiful 05:30
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Running Away 04:01
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about

The low flying planes moniker was resurrected from the full moon basement of 90's western mass and used for a quintet in Boston at the dawn of the new millennium. They clung stubbornly to the idea that a band could go in as many as five different musical directions at once and make it all work. Needless to say, they didn't last long.

Rocked by the sudden departure of their singing saw player at the start of the recordings, they somehow plodded on. Soon after, the bass player descended once again into the familiar hells of his beloved heroin addiction and could no longer afford the train fare from Fitchburg into the city. Then tragedy struck again when the drummer, multi instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter was arrested and jailed after he smashed up and destroyed the cafe he was managing in a drunken blackout frenzy. This left the two remaining responsible human beings to finish the record so they could put it all behind them as soon as possible.

This first full length attempt is notable for the clear divergence of ideas recorded with an aloof carelessness that belies the maudlin themes of moribund self pity and decrepitude. Slothy, suicidal ballads of narcoleptic regret sit uneasily next to devastating breakup songs arranged as hokey, muppet-rock, etc etc as the paradoxes multiply beyond listenability.

By the late summer they would be back in the rehearsal space recording the follow up and pushing their divergent musical misdirections even further by tossing electrobeat, lounge, and heavy metal elements into their recipe of confessional ballads and folky pop-psych stylings.

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released March 15, 2002

Jeff Hickey
Su Paille
Ian Johnson
Jesse Roy
Justin Kiss

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Cellophane Recordings Brooklyn, New York

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