Album Review: Bastian's Happy Flight - Heart/Works

11 October 2013 | 4:12 pm | Stephanie Tell

For the most part, however, this offering has style in spades but little substance.

 

This shimmering, retro offering rehashes the cheesiest genres of eras bygone. It incorporates funk grooves with '70s disco, '80s dream-pop in the vein of Wham and swanky '90s R&B, all wrapped up in glossy, contemporary production. But unless you desperately want a nostalgia trip, this release isn't for you. Electro-pop song Vodka Ginger begins ominously, like Robbie Williams' Rock DJ, but oddly transforms into the best track on the EP, channelling a futuristic Tron aesthetic while its robotic vocals coldly deliver rhyming commands. For the most part, however, this offering has style in spades but little substance.