NightStop: Return to Synth City (album review)

A pinch of happiness! That's what you get, if you load the current album of Night Stop from Finland into your player. It's already out for some months now, but the 12 tracks on Return to Synth City enchant with catchy, although partly cheesy sounding melodies which exude so much passion and love for this kind of music - 80's synthwave pop. After listening to this album you really want to put of the dust from your good old cassette player and feed it with your old magnetic tapes from your youth. There aren't many artists around who have the talent to convince you doing things like that.

NightStop does not only focus on the chart breaker hits from the 1980's. Tracks such as "Hybrid Heaven" could even come directly out of the music studio from Chris Hülsbeck and find their way into the next part of the Turrican games series. Also it seems that in "Night Beach" Ferris Bueller is just waiting together with Tango & Cash for doing some nonsense while thereby driving through Miami Vice to the next Flashdance. "Dial Jenny" however sounds so sweet that it seems you will almost drown in all that sugar and candy, but will absorb each additional second of this romance between claps and strings. Yep, NightStop understands perfectly to transport the magic of the reverberation in our brain.

Track list:
1. Bloodnight
2. No Remorse
3. Hooker Havoc
4. Dial Jenny
5. Gazer
6. Street Romance
7. Synth City
8. Moonlight Bubblebath (feat. Jenny)
9. Night Beach
10. Porn After Midnight
11. Answering Machine (feat. Eeva)
12. Hybrid Heaven

Return to Synth City @ Bandcamp

Personal Favorites: Hybrid Heaven, Dial Jenny, Night Beach

Thanks to ne7 for proof-reading and correcting the translation.

Image source: BandCamp / Ere Ek