A Touch of Heaven

A Touch of Heaven is a fulfilling Nordic AOR work on which Last Autumn's Dream layers warm, sweet vocals, soft, beautiful keyboards and graceful melody. While firmly keeping a sure outline as hard rock, the songs, never hurrying, carry mature, rich emotion carefully and powerfully with mature playing. At the opening is a moving song dedicated as a requiem to the late Swedish master bassist Marcel Jacob. A record where the band’s mature songcraft shines. From the drama of the opener “Heaven & Earth – A Requiem To Marcel Jacob” and the powerful drive of “Caught in Between” to a cut like “Top of the World,” every song is engaging, while cuts like “Candle in the Dark,” “Come Rain or Shine” and “Heartbreaker” convey the work’s fullness. Mikael Erlandsson’s warm voice shines. A record that truly suits when you want to carefully immerse in the sure comfort of beautiful melody and its calm, deep afterglow, rather than big, dramatic drama. The graceful, refined appeal particular to Nordic AOR fills the whole. Even in a prolific career, its quality has not dropped in the least. A refined, engaging, fulfilling melodic-rock work — a record where the band’s steadiness shines.