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Sky Sailing is a side project of Adam Young, the artist behind Owl City. The songs on the album, An Airplane Carried Me To Bed, were written before he started Owl City. The debut Album An Airplane Carried Me To Bed is a step into the past, the documented account of a shy boy from Minnesota with more hopes and dreams than he knew what to do with. When you listen to this record, you can hear naivety, innocence, inexperience and the wide-eyed imaginings of a wishful thinker. It is both light and dark, optimistic and melancholy. Unpolished and dusty,...

A Fine Day For Sailing has existed in many incarnations, the newest of which features seven animals - there's a bird of some description, a sausage dog, a pug and there might even be a whale that's actually a piano. Made up of Matthew, Jen, Thom, Sharon, Dan and Caroline, they play Beach Boys-infused pop music, taking inspiration from each of their individual musical interests, which are as varied as Cabaret Voltaire to Belle & Sebastian. They split up in 2012. .

Let's Go Sailing, from Los Angeles, is full of rainbows and fairies. But it also has a darker side...It is full of lost and neglected stuffed animals found at the side of the road." In November of 2002, Shana Levy left indie pop outfit Irving to pursue Let's Go Sailing. She asked friends Tanya Haden, Nikki Monninger, Brent Turner and Byron Reynolds to work on an album's worth of material and soon enough they began recording a demo with Chris Chandler (Flaming Lips/Modest Mouse/Elliott Smith) and Rod Cervera (The Rentals/Weezer). The recording process quickly gained momentum and, with the help...