Time To Fly were a band from Port Orchard, Washington, formed in 2001. Wikipedia says the band was active until 2005, but their website went offline in 2004, so that may not be correct. They are best known for their contributions to that holy grail of aughts emo pop, the Amped snowboarding series of games; more than half of the band's debut album was included in Xbox 360 launch title Amped 3 (fellow Pacific Northwest natives Woke Up Falling also contributed). The Amped series included such emo luminaries as Time Spent Driving, Sunday's Best, The Jazz June, and The Get Up Kids, but for the purposes of comparison I think it's important to specifically note the inclusion of Eleventeen, Brandston, and Places To Park. That's the frame that Time To Fly existed in, a combination of 90s and early 2000s emo pop with influences from midwest emo and, more prominently, alternative.
The band's first album is also their only album, 2002's birth.work.death. Their only other material seems to be three demos recorded the following year, which are available on this Bandcamp. The demos find the band moving away from emo pop towards indie rock, and it would have been interesting to see if that's where they went with a second album.
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