Edito de 600 Miles From...Journeys. Some people enjoy the ride, for some the end can?t come quick enough, Sometimes enjoyable, sometimes challenging. Life?s journey isn?t always straight forward. Hitechjet's journey was all of the above but they arrived at a destination full of optimism. ?600 Miles From?? the new Hitechjet album. Hitechjet's journey commenced in Autumn 2001 when Bev (bass/b.vox), Adam (guitar), Mem (guitar/b.vox) and Mick (drums/b.vox) roads collided . They were later joined by Brian (vocals) at the beginning of 2002 and following an unusually pain free naming exercise, became Hitechjet taken from a line in Nina's song ?99 Red Balloons?. The first and only rule ever agreed would be no rules in regards to musical style. This approach lead to an unrestrictive creative process, taking in influences ranging from Slayer to Jeff Buckley and everything in between. The response to Hitechjet's arrival on the live circuit was immediate, recieving great reviews from dozens of fanzines and creating interest from several record labels. In early 2003, Hitechjet signed to Nottingham based label In At The Deep End Records (Send More Paramedics, Beecher, Steel Rules Die). June of the same year saw the release of , ?If You Take Anything?, Hitechjet's debut release, a 7 track genre hopping mini-album which received critical acclaim in many magazines and fanzines including Kerrang (4K), Big Cheese (4/5) and Drowned in Sound (4.5/5), which helped secure shows with Lagwagon, Kasabian, Instruction, Red Animal War and Million Dead amongst others. This brings us to the present day and the highly anticipated arrival of their first full length album ?600 Miles From?? recorded, engineered and produced by long time cohort John Hannon. Thirteen tracks combining punk, hardcore, indie, rock and lo-fi cast in their own inimitable style. ?Jump in the car and join them on their ride? Big Cheese Magazine 5/5 Brit hopefuls come back brighter. At the penultimate moment of ?This Lift Goes Down? frontman Brain Ayers sings: ?and now we change these ways?. It?s an oddly fitting line to describe the progression from 2003?s ?If You Take Anything? to ?600 Miles From...?. Mixing the gruff punk of Hot Water Music and Small Brown Bike with the punchy emotions of Sunny Day Real Estate. Hitechjet (who take their name from the ?99 Red Balloons? song) have hit on a striking sound all of their own, one which blooms from the speakers from opener ?(I Should Have Left You At The) Roadside? and leaves you disappointed its done with the closing ?As Though Nothing Happened?. Fresh, furious and loaded up on bare passion, Hitechjet are perhaps the most promising UK band right now. Fact. (Jim Sharples) Zero Magazine 5/5 ?Is this the shit that?s supposed to knock our socks off?? So starts of the first full album from Uxbridge 5 piece Hitechjet. First look at the cover of this cracking cd and I presumed we had the next greatest export from the good ole US of A.Everything about this release reeks of pure class. It?s been a while since I?ve been this impressed with a debut album from a new British act. The power, passion and controlled aggression are evident through all 13 songs - no fillers here. They seem to have shoe horned in the best of bands such as, Jimmy Eat World, hundred reasons, Bad Religion, Lost Prophets and made their own sound. Brian the vocalist seems to have a range reminiscent of Cory from Slipknot - one minute he is screeching, screaming and growling like a banshee, then when they slow things down for the acoustic ?The Perfect Video? the guy can really sing. If you were looking for a single, then I would choose the radio/MTV friendly ?Making Movies?. Listen, Hitechjet want to take you on a journey - this has got everything...brutal vocals, great hooks, sing-along chorus?s, punk attitude, indie feel and commercial success stamped all over it. Apparently they absolutely shred live as well and have already supported such acts as Kasbian & Million Dead. ?Jumped in the car and join them on their ride? Rocksound 8/10 Now that Hot Water Music have finally hung up their guitar straps for an indefinite hiatus we can all live out our gruffed-voiced fantasies and call it influences rather than imitation. Enter Uxbridge quintet, Hitechjet: a band whose melodic, grit-gargling assault on their debut album proper throws up one passionate wig-out (?Statues?) after another (?If My Best Is Not Good Enough (i)?) - songs that stand proud despite having their influences emblazoned on their lapels like medals. And when they ease off the gas, they?re equally adept at constructing introspective indie-pop gems like ?See 20/20?. Unusually ?600 Miles From...? Saves all the best songs for the latter half of the disc, which, in the vinyl flipping old days, would have meant that the B-side was better than the A-side. So for best results, start from the end and work your way back. Lire la suite