Sci-Fi themes, even though central to a very influential band like The Pixies, are not exactly the most common ones among emerging indie bands. Space-pop group The Landing (brainchild of Brooklyn musician Jon Bell) sounds nothing like Black Francis’ band, but shares with him a fascination for anything intergalactic and extraterrestrial. Or at least that’s what you gather from new video "We Are," whose title is the answer to the question "Are we alone in the universe?" – although the answer gets mischieviously confounded at the end of the song with the tiniest "not." The song is a well orchestrated, hypnotic electro-soul ballad, in which liquid synth pads play the part of space, arpeggiators and sparse guitar notes play the stars, and Bell’s falsetto plays the absence of gravity. "We Are" is the title track of the band’s latest EP.
