Two years after the Walkabouts” successful return with the chart album “Acetylene”, a new Chris & Carla album, “Fly High Brave Dreamers”, finally was released in 2007. It had been way too long (1998!) since the two had last appeared as a duo. Musically, a lot had changed since then. Of course, the trademarks remained audible: the warm, excellently unobtrusively produced basic mood, Eckman”s guitar playing, the vocal harmonies.

But the result is an upbeat version of a Chris & Carla record. One half was produced with analogue instruments as a digital production, a sort of folktronica draft, the other five songs as live and direct as possible with the support of Al Deloner (ex-Midnight Choir) and Jason Victor (Steve Wynn, Willard Grant Conspiracy), among others. The eleventh song, “Salad Days” by the Young Marble Giants, provides the credo for this album: Stay direct and keep everything as simple as possible.

 1 At The Twilight’s Last Gleaming 4:20
2 Things We Should Have Known 4:04
3 Ice Station Zebra 4:51
4 Taking Leave Of Our Senses 4:38
5 Long Slow River 4:23
6 Love Sleeps Late 3:53
7 Rising Backwards 5:07
8 Raise Them Hands 4:21
9 Whatever It Takes 6:49
10 Fly High Brave Dreamers 5:24
11 Salad Days 2:22