Phantom of the Night

by Kayak

Overview

Featuring slick harmonizing and heavily compressed drum, this release completed Kayak's transition to keyboard-based pop. The once-intricate bass playing is now almost absent from the mix, and odd times are forsaken for rigid 4/4 patterns. Despite this, the undistinguished single "Ruthless Queen" proved to be the band's biggest hit, nearing the top of the charts in Holland. Though Edward Reekers is consistently too squeaky-clean in his singing, "Journey Through Time" might satisfy old fans with its trading off of riffs between an off-kilter guitar hook and synth flutes. "Crime of Passion" marches over a martial piano line, and "No Man's Land" makes the most of a driving (if simple) rhythm section underlying needling guitar solos and warbling Hammond organ. If this album retains much interest, though, it's probably more for its original vinyl issue as a nifty picture disc than for the music on it. ~ Paul Collins

Product Details

Release Date:	12/04/2020
Label:	Janus / Renaissance Records
UPC:	0630428013117
Rank:	110228

Tracks

1. Keep the Change
2. Winning Ways
3. Otaphne (Laurel Tree)
4. Journey Through Time
5. Phantom of the Night
6. Crime of Passion
7. The Poet and the One Man Band
8. Ruthless Queen
9. No Man's Land
10. First Signs of Spring

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kayak   Primary Artist
Edward Reekers   Vocals
Max Werner   Drums,Vocals,Keyboards,Percussion
Ton Scherpenzeel   Keyboards
Allan Mason   Sequencing
Katherine Laphorn   Vocals
Irene Linders   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Peter Scherpenzeel   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Johan Slager   Guitar

Technical Credits

Tom Drennon   Design,Hand Lettering
Bernie Grundman   Mastering
Dennis MacKay   Arranger,Producer
Kayak   Arranger,Producer
Ton Scherpenzeel   Arranger,Composer
Allan Mason   A&R
Irene Linders   Composer
Paul Natkin   Photography
Janfred Arendsen   Engineer
John Tilly   Engineer