Are the rock bands Travis and Shiny Toy Guns from the same country?
Shiny Toy Guns Shiny Toy Guns is an American rock band that formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. They released their first studio album "We Are Pilots" in 2006, after recording it two previous times. It featured three singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the Alternative Songs Chart. "We Are Pilots" was nominated for a Grammy Award. Their second album "Season of Poison" was released in 2008 and featured two singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the Alternative Songs Chart.
We Are Pilots We Are Pilots is the debut studio album by American electronic rock band Shiny Toy Guns. After previously being independently released throughout 2005, it was officially released on October 17, 2006 through Universal Motown in the United States and Mercury Records in the United Kingdom, with linear notes of the album referring to it as "version 3.0". Production, recording, and writing dates back as far as the early 2000s, with several songs being written during founding members Gregori Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson's previous project, Dangerous Insects. Musically, "We Are Pilots" primarily uses influences of both rock music and electronic music whilst also incorporating elements of alternative rock, indie rock, pop, electropop, post-punk revival and disco, with the band receiving comparisons to The Killers and Franz Ferdinand.