New Direction

Review Score: (10/10)
With the 'Stay On These Roads' album a-ha began a venture into a new direction. The 80's pop sound was a good but eventual ephemeral one. You can feel and hear a sound that is in transition from Pop to Rock on this album, yet the overall sound is somewhere in between the two making this album a rather curious oddity. You get the impression that they were being pulled in two directions. 'The Blood That Moves The Body' and 'Stay On These Roads' are examples of this. Even the title of the album can be interpreted as a question and suggests wonder for what may lay ahead. Yet they still meld lyric, melody and their unique sound into something that transcends the definition of music in whatever manner they perform. My favorite song on this album is 'The Living Daylights' originally written for the James Bond film. In 1987 Paul Waaktaar was commissioned to compose the theme for the James Bond film with the John Barry. Due to rumored disagreements between a-ha and Barry, two versions of 'The Living Daylights' were recorded, one for the movie soundtrack and the version heard on this album. I really like this one and I think it is the highlight of the album.

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