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

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.