Artist : The Night Flight Orchestra

Album : Aeromantic

Release Date : 28-02-2020

Added : 29-03-2020

We are now getting used to the Swedish album release of 'The Night Flight Orchestra' because, after 'Amber Galactic' in 2017 and 'Sometimes the World Ain't Enough' in 2018, here is the new one, 'Aeromantic', which is already the 5th album and which will continue to make people happy with fans of pop, rock, disco (and I forget certainly some) from the 70s and 80s : we don't change a winning team and the recipe that goes with it because the Swedes continue to offer us melodies that we immediately integrate with influences from groups or artists from these decades gone by.

And yet, listening to the first bars of the first track 'Servants of the Air', I told myself that they had slightly hardened the tone and that it flirted more with 'Deep Purple' than with l 'ELO' but this only lasted a few moments because from 'Divinyls', we find the lively AOR style that we knew and 'If Tonight's Our Only Chance' which follows is a bit of a mix between 'ABBA' and 'Alan Parsons Project' while 'This Boy's Last Summer' continues with an introduction close to 'Mamma Mia' and an catchy refrain on a catchy tempo. Follows 'Curves' which could be a mixture between 'Toto' and 'Elton John' and 'Transmissions' and 'Aeromantic' with their disco tones recalls the international variety of the eighties, then, 'Golden Swansdown' returns to the style of 'Elton John' especially since 'Björn Strid' has some intonations of the English as well in 'Taurus' which with its rapid rhythm can recall compositions like 'I'm Still Standing'. The end of the album continues in this way with a catchy 'Carmencita Seven', then after a completely offbeat final with Indian sounds, 'Sister Mercurial' continues without transition with melodic lines between 'ASIA' and 'Toto', then 'Dead Of Winter', after an epic introduction takes us one last time in the 80s with intonations of 'Survivor'.

In summary, no surprise with this new album by the Swedes of 'The Night Flight Orchestra', 'Aeromantic' continue to offer us accessible melodies in a happy and joyful atmosphere straight from the 80s which destines it , like its predecessors, to a very large audience...

Line Up / Musicians

Björn Strid (Vocal), Sharlee D' Angelo (Bass), David Andersson (Guitar), Richard Larsson (Keybords), Jonas Källsbäck (Drums), Sebastian Forslund (Guitar), Anna Brygård (Choirs), Anna-Mia Bonde (Choirs)