Air Traffic - Fractured Life (CD)

All Music Guide

Air Traffic's main songwriter and singer Chris Wall had said about his native town Bournemouth, "There are no music venues and absolutely no pressure to sound like anybody else, so you have the potential to develop your own style." As a kid, he preferred to hang out on the beach and didn't buy much music. Perhaps he was referring to the sort of music venues that a band like Air Traffic could play in and if he thought that Air Traffic's sound was unique, he obviously hadn't been listening to Coldplay when he wrote the title track Your Fractured Life or Time Goes By or their second chart single, Shooting Star which charts the band's rapid ascent to mainstream acceptance with their piano introductions and the offthebeat guitar and thrashing drums that enter just as one is lulled into thinking the songs are going to be ballads, or Keane which one is reminded of when listening to I Can't Understand with its rhythmic piano chords and falsetto singing.