Artist : Cats In Space

Album : Day Trip to Narnia

Release Date : 01-03-2019

Added : 11-04-2019

After 'Scarecrow' in 2017 (see here), ‘Cats In Space’ come back to earth in 2019 to offer us a new album 'Day Trip to Narnia' : they continue to give us a happy and bubbly 70/80 rock with ubiquitous choruses and the references to the groups mentioned in my previous review are still part of the trip but we could add some like the wacky side of 'Cheap Trick' with the short 'She Talks Too Much' or 'Queen' with the beautiful melody of 'Tragic Alter Ego' or the 'Beach Boys' with 'Silver and Gold' and its very seventies choruses or' Elton John 'with the beautiful ballad' Chasing Diamonds'. The second part of the album is the story of 'Johnny Rocket' in 7 episodes which is a little in the same register as the musical 'Starmania' of 'Luc Plamandon' and 'Michel Berger' of the late 70s (is the name of 'Johnny Rocket' not an allusion to 'Johnny Rockfort' of 'Starmania' ?). In any case, everything was written to reflect the 70s with a 'Thunder In The Night' reminiscent of the 'Bee Gees' with 'Saturday Night Fever', which brought together rock and the fashion style of this time, the disco. In short, with this latest album, the 'Cats In Space' make us travel back in time and this 'Day Trip to Narmia' with very accessible and varied melodies should reach a wide audience who loves the period of the seventies...

Line Up / Musicians

Paul Manzi (Vocal), Greg Hart (Guitar, Choirs), Steevi Bacon (Drums, Choirs), Dean Howard (Guitar, Choirs), Jeff Brown (Bass, Choirs), Andy Stewart (Keybords)