Meticulously layering reverb-heavy guitars, thumping bass lines, and oft-synthetic beats, Missing Pilots pour themselves into their instruments with both composure and vigor, constructing epic songs in which melodies wrestle with drifting sound-scapes, and win.
- Clinton Doggett
Missing Pilots' accomplished musicianship create faint melodies that hit like hammers to the heart. The churchgoing chime of "The Truth Is Never Easy" leads a slow progression towards a delicate release that would be buried anywhere else, but it's fiery and defiant when played in this setting. Howlingly unhinged by comparison to the rest of the songs, "Properties of Undoing" finds the inward depression thrust to outward rage in sweeping soundscapes and pounding resonance. Missing Pilots' ability to retain poise amidst both their gloom and mania affords the songs a genuine elegance. Only the scope of their inspiration holds them from success.
-Skratch Magazine
Review of 'I Know You Don't Mean It'
This song is about 3 years old if my memory serves me correct. Jordan was in the process of recording the first Snowden EP and it was being mixed and mastered by an engineer in Connecticut. He sent us a track, “I Know You Don’t Mean It†by West Chester, PA’s Missing Pilots. Dance-punk was just starting to storm it’s way into the indie sound scape… the 4/4 kick and disco high-hats weren’t nauseating yet. The bass line could easily find a home in a Volkswagen commercial… suburbanite professionals and music snobs alike would bob their heads for 30 seconds wondering how Volkswagen always picks the perfect songs. To me it is a defining track of the beginning of an era that was never recognized as such. As far as I know, the band is no more… so consider this a posthumous nod to a song that should have been on many top lists for 2003. Better late than never, right?
-Kiss Atlanta Blog
