All Rise

All Rise is Perfect Plan's debut, released by Frontiers on 20 April 2018. The band had formed in 2014 in Örnsköldsvik, in northern Sweden: Kent Hilli on vocals, Rolf Nordström on guitar, P-O Sedin on bass, Leif Ehlin on keyboards and Fredrik Forsberg on drums, all of them experienced players already. The order of events is worth noting. Recording finished in February 2017, and the deal came afterwards — they completed an album with nobody behind them, and only then found a label. What carried their name was the second track, "In and Out of Love." Released ahead of the album as a single, it made Hilli's voice an international subject overnight. After the light opening of "Bad City Woman," "Stone Cold Lover" and "Gone Too Far" both begin heavier, guitar colliding with Hammond. The choruses of "What Goes Around" and "Too Late" follow, then a song called simply "1985," and "Heaven in Your Eyes" closes all eleven. Reviewers reached for Survivor, Giant, Hardline and Journey. On Hilli's voice, one settled on a formula: somewhere between Joey Tempest and a Coverdale-like gruffness.