This was one of my favorite albums from my college radio days. Their sound sort of falls between the older Britpop bands of the early 1990's (a scene which most of the band members were a part of) and a very faint leading indicator of Coldplay and its ilk in the following decade. I really thought they were the start of the next big thing, but they were just another casualty of the artist massacre on the Island label, which suffocated many young bands while still in the cradle. Apparently having an album and two singles in the UK Top 40 do not ensure future success.
As for the album itself, the first three tracks are incredibly strong and not surprisingly were the A-sides of the three singles derived from the album. Even though the rest of the album is not nearly as great, the strength of the first tracks will let you easily coast the rest of the way.
Warm Jets is actually one of the harder bands to play the "whatever happened to" game. It seems like their nominal leader, Louis Jones, vanished into the ether. In fact, I'm not sure what happened to any of them, though there may have been some 11th-hour involvement from Alex Lee, who has played with a number of British bands. Then there is producer Glyn Johns, who is a name unto himself long before and long after Warm Jets graced the stage.
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