Artist : Cats In Space

Album : Kickstart The Sun

Release Date : 29-07-2022

Added : 14-08-2022

Album of the playlist myprogmusic 2022 summer chronicles

As I had already mentioned two days ago with the release of the latest album 'Enigmatic' from the 'Gathering of Kings' project, here is another project where I could copy/paste my previous chronicles, because our 'cats in space' , after the very good ones 'Scarecrow' in 2017, 'Day Trip to Narnia' in 2019 and 'Atlantis' in 2020, are back with a new album, very dense, since they are 13 titles framed by the two short 'Kickstart The Su n' for a little over an hour of listening that are offered to us.

And, from the start, we take a good breath of melodic rock and catchy with an over-vitamined 'King of Stars', then, 'Poke the Witch' (see the video above) continues in this momentum of the 60s / 70s with radiant choirs that give an irresistible desire to accompany them and 'Teenage Millionaires' (see the video here) delivers a layer with the same energy. The sequel is in the image of this beginning of the album with, for example, the joyful 'Smoke & Mirrors' and the English also offer us very beautiful breaks with the ballads which are three in number, '1,000,000 Miles', 'A Big Balloon' and 'Hero', but also with the title track which adds a good pinch of progressive rock and 'Charlie's Ego' brings us back to the lightness and carelessness of the 'Beatles', just like 'Last Dance Saloon' which is dancing and whose melodic lines are closer this time to 'Electric Light Orchestra'. And before the cover of 'Kickstart The Sun', the album ends with the long development 'Bootleg Bandoleros' showing a more pronounced progressive side of 'Cats In Space' with a more complex construction which alternates different moods and which highlights a magnificent section of the two guitarists who pass the buck in the second part of the title.

In summary, the English of 'Cats In Space' continue to offer us good melodic rock by making us travel in their spaceship which takes us back a few decades and the atmospheres released, joyful and filled with a beautiful positivity naturally have their place in the summer playlist that I have concocted for you since the end of July...

Line Up / Musicians

Damien Edwards (Vocal, Choirs), Greg Hart (Guitar, Choirs, Keybords, Tubular Bells), Steevi Bacon (Drums, Percussions, Timpanin Gong, Harmonica), Jeff Brown (Bass, Choirs), Andy Stewart (Keybords), Dean Howard (Guitar) + Guests : Jack Birchwood (Cuivres), Ian Cooper (Vilon, Cello, Viola), BJ Cole (Pedal Steel), Emily Lynn (Choirs), Julie Maguire (Choirs), Lara Smiles (Choirs), Mick Wilson (Choirs)