Album Notes

Shooting Star (2011) – Release Info

Blue Flux's latest album emerges with a scaly smile from its intensive two-year incubation, then hits the ground running with Bullets, its punchy and adrenaline-charged opener. The deceptively twangy Picsty soon nails its true colours to the digital mast, until the gentler tones of Paradox stop down the camera lens a click or two as it slowly tilts it towards the cracked mirror. Maintaining this softer focus are the plangent Eye Of Your Needle and the timely yet timeless Save Our Soul, until Here To Help hits the lights to deliver its relentless roundkick with an assassin’s smile. The album's bittersweet title track paints the celestial picture that sets the scene for Shooting Star's final song, the ethereal Nameless Isle.

Shooting Star shines as colourfully as its original artwork by Jill McIntosh and surely is testimony to a band at the peak of their performance. With delicate songwriting and no-holds-barred musicianship abound, this is an album that stands up to scrutiny and might just sparkle a little more with every catch.