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There are certain things that will never fade, that won’t ever give in and that won’t ever lose their importance. There are some things that have grounded themselves so deeply in the collective minds of the people, or at least a part of people, that they are visible and tangible almost by instinct as soon as the senses set themselves to them. A female singing voice over a driving beat is one of those things. A fascinating voice, deep and sensual at the same time as it is angelic and uplifting. A voice that is able to vibrate on inside the listeners brain and body like a real wave of energy.

Another things is the everlasting power of the pop-song, a power that works by slowly and gently creeping into the mind and re-arranging mindsets and emotions there. A song that makes you feel good before you even realize that you hear it. A song like “Clown” on the second album by the pop-band Abbie Gale. Or one that glistens and glimmers with eternal shine and polish, like the sparkling moonlight on the nightly waves of the ocean, like the opener “Life after Life”. Or the pounding wall of driving guitars and forceful rhythm section that is “Wanted”.

Two thing are obvious from this introduction. The first is that Abbie Gale is obviously not your average pop band that pops up at every corner in every nation of the world. Bands that consist of some people who know each other by chance or by having grown up together and who form a band for no other reason than finding no better way to channel their creativity. Yesterday evening I heard the hostess of a show on the Austrian alternative state-owned radio say, that if she “hears something special”, the least she can do is to play it on the radio.