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Welcome, Stranger!
Rock · 2017 · 10 tracks · 41m

Welcome, Stranger!

The Blue Aeroplanes

Literary spoken-word monologues floating over a shimmering sea of jangling guitars. Intellectual, rhythmic indie rock for fans of poetry and post-punk texture.

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It's like a really cool poetry reading crashed into a wall of shimmering indie guitars.

A sharp, intellectual restlessness balanced by shimmering, melodic beauty.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 41m
01
Looking for X’s on a Map
3:55
02
Sweet, Like Chocolate
3:15
03
Retro Moon
3:27
04
Dead Tree! Dead Tree!
4:38
05
Walking Under Ladders for a Living
4:33
06
Elvis Festival
3:28
07
Nothing Will Ever Happen in the Future
6:01
08
Skin
3:09
09
Here Is the Heart of All Wild Things
4:28
10
Poetland
4:54
Moments Worth Waiting For
The interlocking guitar patterns on 'Dead Tree! Dead Tree!' that build into a dense, harmonic thicket.
Gerard Langley's rhythmic, almost percussive delivery on 'Looking for X’s on a Map' setting a cerebral tone.
The six-minute sprawl of 'Nothing Will Ever Happen in the Future' where the guitars finally boil over into a controlled frenzy.
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