"With a fresh, exhuberant sound, Niteflights are guaranteed to get your 2012 kicking right into gear. My first exposure to them was when they shared their brilliant cover of John Cale‘s “Paris 1919“, and was instantly pleased with what I heard. For me, the true test of a great cover is when someone can take a song and make it their own, which Niteflights are able to do while still staying true to the original. The keyboard and analog style harmonies instantly bring to mind Mod boys bobbing around in cavernous 1960s dancehalls. Yet, Niteflights are far from fallbacks to a previous era, they’re making music for our jittery times, that have the ability to allow a nice burst of fresh, giddy air for the increasingly dark times we have to deal with.
“Coney Island 1912″ melds prog-rock with Belle & Sebastian literary power pop (they name-drop D.H. Lawrence, what’s not to love?). There are definite echoes of early Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, yet not as derivative of Talking Heads (which seemed to be quite the thing in 2004). I love how the elements of dirty, scratchy guitars are juxtaposed with clean, immaculate keyboard notes. There is a driving gritty edge below the surface of snarky, “twee-as-fuck” additions. Unexpected melodies pop up left and right, elevating this from the standard indie pop conventions. I must take this opportunity to say how much I personally adore the fact that this group has several band photos of them posing in dandy attire whilst smoking pipes. Just had to put that out there.
“Marnie” is a heartbreaker of a track. It’s 21st century Brit Pop in the glorious tradition ofTelevision Personalities’ “Part-Time Punks” and Blur‘s “Country House”. Their music is so joyous and tongue-in-cheek mixed with sincerity and surprising pop hooks that practically command you to get up and dance. It is high time that literary, cheeky, smarty-pants Brit Pop made a revival, and dammit, I hope that involves Niteflights and all their post-punk, power pop literary name-dropping. Huzzah, indeed! Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!" (Listened: listenbeforeyoubuy.net)
“Coney Island 1912″ melds prog-rock with Belle & Sebastian literary power pop (they name-drop D.H. Lawrence, what’s not to love?). There are definite echoes of early Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, yet not as derivative of Talking Heads (which seemed to be quite the thing in 2004). I love how the elements of dirty, scratchy guitars are juxtaposed with clean, immaculate keyboard notes. There is a driving gritty edge below the surface of snarky, “twee-as-fuck” additions. Unexpected melodies pop up left and right, elevating this from the standard indie pop conventions. I must take this opportunity to say how much I personally adore the fact that this group has several band photos of them posing in dandy attire whilst smoking pipes. Just had to put that out there.
“Marnie” is a heartbreaker of a track. It’s 21st century Brit Pop in the glorious tradition ofTelevision Personalities’ “Part-Time Punks” and Blur‘s “Country House”. Their music is so joyous and tongue-in-cheek mixed with sincerity and surprising pop hooks that practically command you to get up and dance. It is high time that literary, cheeky, smarty-pants Brit Pop made a revival, and dammit, I hope that involves Niteflights and all their post-punk, power pop literary name-dropping. Huzzah, indeed! Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!" (Listened: listenbeforeyoubuy.net)
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