People In Planes
The great chasm for any musician is the distance between what they hear in their heads and what reaches listeners’ ears. Unless you’re a band committed to either effete esoterica or stage-humping feral lunacy, your success largely depends on how well you reconcile the purity of your musical ideas with an audience’s need for hooks and melody. This is what makes People In Planes so welcome: their music is equally ambitious and pleasing. The band’s debut: As Far As The Eye Can See is a richly atmospheric, sometimes challenging album that doesn’t stint on inviting melody and anthemic choruses. In other words, this five-piece band from Cardiff, Wales traverses the long distance between visionary flights of imagination and simple rock pleasures as easily as, well, people in planes.
