Girls In Hawaii - Nocturne (2017) [Official Digital Download]

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Girls In Hawaii - Nocturne (2017) [Official Digital Download]

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Girls In Hawaii - Nocturne (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 42:32 minutes | 473 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The snap of a finger is enough! The listener is immediately taken into Nocturne by the heady piano jingle of This Light, the opening song of Girls In Hawaii’s fourth album. And then you understand quite quickly that the entire album is exhilarating. As opposed to Everest, which was the result of a long and painful process following the death of the drummer in a car accident in 2010, Nocturne seems to have happened “almost on its own” according to Antoine Wielemans and Lionel Vancauwenberghe. After From Here To There (2003), Plan Your Escape (2008) and Everest (2013), the Belgian duo truly reaches perfection here. Their pop songs are surprisingly sophisticated. Both in the production and instrumentation, everything is carefully calculated, nothing is left to chance. And when the album slightly edges towards electro, the Girls share the class of Radiohead’s Kid A. The listener comes out of Nocturne thinking that, much like its predecessors, if Girls In Hawaii just happened to be from London or New York – instead of Wallonia – their success would have been multiplied a thousand fold!