the Gangway is back after a pladepause of 23 years. When you listen to ’Whatever It Is’, it feels rather as 23 minutes.
good and evil is, basically, nothing has changed. It is most good.
the Gangway is from a generation where role models like Pet Shop Boys and New Order allowed, that pop music could be both gifted, subtle, and ironic.
It has the trio from Copenhagen, taken with him into the new millennium, and it fits them in a time of cynical samlebåndshits, which is devoid of charm and warmth.
the Gangway may not have been better, but most things have been worse lately, so that is also why it is a particular pleasure, that they are active again.
’Whatever It Is’ provides a very typical strip songs by Henrik Balling, if the round jibe and eccentric inclinations spreads the personality of an album that just reliably works on a foundation of honest craft.
Popbaskere as ’Colourful Combinations’ and ’See If I Care’ to get the ears to flutter, while the ’Confident and Ordinary’ and ’Always Crying’ is a credible bid on the ballads.
Gangways sound often appear somewhat dated and a rare time decidedly corny, but they have updated the machinery at ’The Quiet Stairs’ and ’Exit’, where they play with their characteristic sound and tests the limits of out in the stratosphere.
First and foremost, the Gangway, however, returned home to the it that unmistakably is the Gangway. Welcome back.
the Cover to the Gangways eighth album is created by the group’s longtime visual collaborator, Peter Ravn.
