| But “hopeless” is our middle name here at Last Plane to Jakarta, and when we got a jiffy bag with a couple of cassettes and a two-page press kit in it about six weeks ago, we were thrilled. We could hardly believe it, to tell you the truth. There was something magical about it. Our age is the age of cheaply available digital technology; yet here was a band ignoring the obvious (CDs are cheaper) and the glaringly obvious (CDs are popular) and sending out tapes of its newest album, a release, as it turns out, available exclusively on cassette, entitled Ocean. It’s by an ensemble that has boldly leapt into the worst-band-name-ever sweepstakes with one of the most daring and outré entries to date: the band is called, brace yourself, therefore. All lower-case and with a period afterwards. therefore. (It’s too late for therefore., but in case anybody else is tempted to give their band a comparably awful name, please do write to Last Plane to Jakarta and we will name your band for you. If not for yourselves, then do it for the children. Thank you.) The mind reels. |