Kevin Bronson on October 14th, 2009

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Canadian quintet Jets Overhead landed on my radar in 2007 when a friend sent me one of those breathless missives that went something like, “Dude, you will love these people. And they’re giving their album away.” Indeed, the churning psych-rock on 2006’s “Bridges” had a lot to recommend it (and it’s not too late to score it) – but the Victoria, B.C.-based band has moved onward and upward. Now signed to Neil Young’s Vapor Records (home of L.A.’s Everest), Jets Overhead in June released “No Nations,” a richly textured and downright gorgeous slice of Anglophile-leaning dream-pop. It’s more ambient than “Bridges” but packs a punch when the fivesome lets the guitars bear their teeth. Like boy-girl vocals? You’ll like what husband-wife duo Adam Kittredge and Antonia Freybe-Smith do.

||| Download: “Heading for Nowhere” and the acoustic version of the song.

||| Live: Jets Overhead opens for the Temper Trap tonight at the Roxy.

||| Watch: After the jump, the video for “Heading for Nowhere”:

Photo by Melissa Melo