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Pilots of Japan
12+ albums
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D.I.Smith recently moved to snowy Michigan, and Gary to the expanding metropolis of Shanghai, moves which have merely added to the mix. Using modern typewriters, the Pilots of Japan have been able to record across three continents and the second album "All the Stars Are Out Tonight" is currently being recorded over fibre optic cables that span the planet. Pilots Of Japan flexed into their current line up for security reasons in March 2003. Since then the band has travelled the country recording a unique record that espouses a bygone and quintessentially English kind of noise… In a settlement on the East Hertfordshire border in England, band members D.I. Smith (vocals) and Gary Chapman (keyboards) started writing together in 1999 after the singer’s post pubescent venture with great friend, inspiration and fellow musical conspirator Mary Epworth. Matthew Brooks (lead guitar), Eddie Wilson (drums) and Daniel Matthews (bass) joined one by one soon after. The Plan To Reverse Time was recorded in a watchmakers factory, a Cornish Villa, a handful of bedrooms and even the odd bathroom, but far from a swampy lo-fi puddle its songs sparkle with the band’s love of lo-fi, 60s movies, and pulling sickies just to spend the day in bed and cop off. It recounts stories where Fred Astaire battles uncontrollable fires, the Six Million Dollar Man is stranded on Mars and hermits are lynched - all narrated in an Orwellian majesty that marks out their craft and belies the skewed world the band
