Songfacts®:

• JoJo Orme, who is essentially Heartworms, was a volunteer at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, helping with aircraft upkeep, when she released "Warplane."
  
  When she's not crafting post-punk anthems, Orme can often be found elbow-deep in the practical upkeep of vintage warplanes, which, as hobbies go, is about as far from TikTok dance challenges as one can reasonably get.
  
  The World War II fighter aircraft, the Spitfire, is something of a personal totem for Orme - a recurring symbol in both her art and her life. "Warplane," a track from Heartworms' debut album, Glutton for Punishment, embodies this. Orme dedicated it to William Gibson Gordon, a Spitfire pilot who died in the Battle of Britain at the age of just 20, shot down by a Messerschmitt 109.
• "Warplane" is a dogfight rendered in sound, complete with civilians craning their necks skyward as chaos unfurls overhead. It concludes, not with a bang, but with a chilling, spectral echo.
  
  "The song ends how I imagine his falling Spitfire sounds to me," Orme said, "like an angel losing its extraordinary wings."
• Through her connections at the museum, Orme obtained a fragment of the actual airframe from Gordon's downed Spitfire, which she has transformed into a badge emblazoned with the Heartworms logo. It's a move that's at once punk and reverent - you'd imagine she'd have made a cracking wartime mechanic.
• Longtime Heartworms collaborator Dan Carey (Fontaines DC, Wet Leg) produced "Warplane." The song's storyline makes for the perfect backdrop for the danceable motorik signature of Dan Carey productions, as the synths roar like planes peeling into tailspin.
• Glutton for Punishment, which, as you may have guessed from the title, is not a collection of feel-good summer bops. "Warplane" sets the tone for the album, which explores themes of discipline, alienation, and resilience, both personal and historical.