'Winding Road' is a new Swedish band (another one !) which comes to play the troublemaker on the melodic hard rock scene and which was created in 2018 by guitarist, bassist and keyboardist 'Magnus Åkerlund' and by drummer and keyboardist 'Jan Hedlund'. And from the first titles 'It's A Matter Of Survival', 'Summertime' and 'Call On Me', we are bathed in an AOR that can be enjoyed without moderation with heady choruses that are grafted directly into the head to never come out. And the rest continues like this beginning with melodies that we appropriate from the first listen and we can quote the irresistible 'Stranger In The Night', 'On My Own Again', 'Gotta Get Close To You' or even 'We Can Run Away' which ends the album in a beautiful way. The calmer atmospheres are not forgotten with the mid-tempo 'Out of Control' and 'Before It All Falls Down' but also the two magnificent ballads 'I Lost You' and 'Take Me as I Am'. In short, in a few lines I think I have quoted almost all the compositions of this very beautiful album by the Swedes of 'Winding Road' which enters through the front door of international melodic rock and which should make this eponymous opus of the group a 2021 reference in this style so popular in Scandinavian countries... | |
