The debut album from this band from Norway.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, theremin, narrations and vocals.
The record company, Apollon Records, sent me this album with the note that the members were previously ski jumpers. Hence the band name. And they are not joking... One of the members, Tommy Ingebrigtsen, are world champion in ski jump from 1995 (I still remember it well). He is also the son of one of the greatest rock'n'roll vocalists in Norway. Yes, Dag Ingebrigtsen from The Kids and TNT.
The band name also reminds me about another Norwegian band with a similar name, The Flying Norwegians. That band was a country-rock band from the 1970s with some limited success in USA.
Arabs In Aspic is though the band that mostly springs to mind when it comes to the music on this four tracks, forty minutes long album. The Flying Norsemen was indeed formed as an Arabs In Aspic tribute band.
The music is spacey and melodic. The vocals are in Norwegian and pretty good. The music is also pretty melodic and not as hard as Arabs In Aspic.
The music is pretty good throughout and this is an album well worth checking out. I hope we will hear a lot more from both this band and Arabs In Aspic in the coming years.
3 points
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