The Night Flight OrchestraSometimes The World Ain’t Enough

The Night Flight Orchestra was borne of the imagination and musical breadth of Soilwork’s Bjorn ‘Speed’ Strid and David Andersson, and provides your ultimate road trip soundtrack.

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Now with their fourth album Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough, these Swedish purveyors of shamelessly good times have delivered an album of quirky, fun, ridiculously addictive tracks to take the edge off reality. The journey is a cosmically hedonistic whirlwind through the early 1980s sounds of pop rock, the destination is left to the wildest corners the listener’s imagination.

There is nothing understated or noncommittal about Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough. Indeed, each of the twelve tracks has a very distinct, even hyperreal, character and mood. Turn To Miami channels a kind of Wham! moment, depicting sunny getaways, while Paralysed brings big-chorus-catchy-melody Rick Astley-inspired karaoke bait. Sentimentalism drips from the Survivor-ballad haze of Lovers In the Rain, while the steady groove of Pretty Thing Closing In bursts with seductive nightclub seediness.

Capturing the overall sound of Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough is elusive except to note that the general vibe has been influenced by another era, being the early 1980s. The most notable aspect of this however is that The Night Flight Orchestra are not simply playing musical dress-ups in a nostaligic sense. Rather, it treats this style of music seriously in its own right, embracing its purpose, forms, and ambience in a modern reiteration of a genre that is rarely pursued as such, and in which Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough is indeed a super-fun masterpiece.

STANDOUT TRACKS: Moments of Thunder, Barcelona, Pretty Thing Closing In.
STICK THIS NEXT TO: Any early-mid 1980s pop/rock such as Survivor, a-ha, A Flock of Seagulls, or – if you dare – next to the metal music projects of the members, such as Soilwork, Arch Enemy, (ex-)Sabaton.