Flight Of Icarus: “Terra Nova” Digtial and CD 13th June 2025 Battlegod Productions. Sweden AOR / Progressive Rock / Pop band.
Keyboard driven album. The voice and the keyboards are in the front, the band sounds in the background like there is not. The voice needs more training (I don’t like the tune) , the male one seems giving a little melody to the female one in only one song. Beautiful cover artwork, fitting the music style, away from this universe. The dream planet.
Pretty flat, atmosphere sounds are taking over, the intro and first song have the same keyboards patern that becomes boring. Reminding the late eighties early nineties music soundtracks. We can call this an ambient album, one song sounds like disney’s movie sound track. ( a siren..) Music could be on the background of the popular movie ‘le grand bleu’, and even ‘Top gun’ .. This doesn’t sound like a band to me, much created for the movies. First time I hear Flight of Icarus, and this is not my type of music. It could be done by only one man on a computer that wouldn’t surprise me. the band is actually a two member one, yet they are several musicians named on this album.
Have a taste and make you mind:
The Iron Maiden’s cover is completely remade, rare to hear a cover that doesn’t sound like one. The vocals being too high makes me hard to listen to the album in full, playing each track one by one half of their length annoys me. Feels like one giant ambient sound with one female voice battling to push the band to recognition.
influences: Sinéad O’Connor, Bannarama, Kate Bush, Sammy Hagar, Jean Michel Jarre, Bee gees, and many more.
For the fans of ambient and keyboards sounds, 80/100.
