Brace for Impact Perfect Plan

• 1Surrender05:22
• 2If Love Walks In05:06
• 3Can't Let You Win04:31
• 4Gotta Slow Me Down05:11
• 5Stop the Bleed05:39
• 6My Angel04:53
• 7Devil's Got the Blues04:22
• 8Bring Me a Doctor04:36
• 9Still Undefeated03:53
• 10Emelie04:40
• 11Walk Through Fire05:31
• Total Runtime53:44

Info for Brace for Impact

Third studio album from Swedish melodic rockers Perfect Plan. Over the course of their first two albums, "All Rise" and "Time For A Miracle", the Swedes have quickly established themselves as a new gold standard in not only the Scandinavian melodic rock genre, but the melodic rock genre as a whole. "Brace For Impact" does nothing to slow that momentum and fans should do exactly as the album's title says in preparation for their latest opus.

Produced by the band, songwriting started in August 2021 for "Brace For Impact" and was wrapped up by the end of the year. The band then spent January of this year working on arrangements and pre-production work before starting the process of recording in the first week of February.

Asked about the musical direction of the album, vocalist Kent Hilli says, "Well, hard question...we didn’t think too much about that when we started writing as we want everything to come naturally to us. All we focused on and wanted to do was to write really great melodic rock songs with great riffs and melodies. But I think we have more ”rockers” on this album than before. I would say that it's melodic rock in general, but maybe slightly harder than our previous albums. But much like our second album, ”Time For A Miracle” we have a great mixture between hard rock, melodic rock, and AOR in there...and some songs even have some elements of progressive rock and some bluesier elements mixed in also. And we have just one ballad on this album. Our goal when writing an album is that it should feel like playing songs on a jukebox and I think we have succeeded with that on this album. Everything sounds like PERFECT PLAN 3.0, really! I think we have definitely pushed everything up a notch from songwriting and lyrics to arrangements and overall performance and sound. With the addition of the great Tobias Lindell who does the mixing…everything sounds really big and majestic I think!"

Sometimes the stars align and create a perfect balance of talent within a group. A band like Perfect Plan is the “perfect" (pun intended) example of that: a superb singer, a well-oiled band of experienced players, and a great songwriting talent with a knack for unforgettable melodies and driving rhythms. Add to that the right single released at the right time and Perfect Plan’s emergence as immediate rising stars on the melodic rock scene is no surprise. The song that “built” their reputation is of course the awesome “In and Out of Love,” the first single/video that kicked off the promotion of the band’s 2018 debut album “All Rise,” released on Frontiers in April of that year. The band followed their debut album with the sophomore release "Time For A Miracle" in 2020. Hyperbole aside, it was a major step forward across the board. Opting for a slightly heavier and more “in your face” sound, Perfect Plan matured and created an outstanding balance of melodies and energy, with the obvious references to the sound of the classics (think Foreigner, Survivor, The Storm, Giant, etc.) and Scandinavian AOR with a recognizable and personal feel.

So, after a stunning debut and sticking the landing with their second album, what does Perfect Plan have up their sleeve for an encore? Well, all we can say is..."Brace For Impact”!

Kent Hilli, vocals
Rolf Nordström, guitar
Leif Ehlin, keyboards
Fredrik Forsberg, drums
Mats Byström, bass

Perfect Plan
Coming from Örnsköldsvik in the cold North of Sweden, PERFECT PLAN is an awesome new AOR combo which was founded in late 2014. Since their inception, the guys had the vision to come up an with exciting musical blend of classic Scandinavian AOR (think Work of Art, Treat, early Europe) with nods to legends like Giant, Foreigner, and Journey. Perfect Plan music came to the attention of Frontiers Music Srl in the spring of 2017 and the label was immediately excited with what they heard. “All Rise” is an incredibly skilled and mature release for being a debut album, this is truly and simply a magnificent example of what “classic” in AOR Music is!

Singer Kent Hilli says, “We´re are really thrilled and excited to release our debut album ”All Rise” together with the Frontiers label. We have strived for a dynamic variation and I think all the songs on the album are unique and has a strong identity and you can hear that every song sounds like us, Perfect Plan. We hope you have bought tickets to Frontiers Rock Festival cause we´re gonna rock hard and kick some ass April 29th in Milano! See you there!

The band features the extraordinary singer Kent Hilli together with Rolf Nordström on guitar, P-O Sedin on bass, Fredrik Forsberg on drums and Leif Ehlin on keyboards.

This album contains no booklet.