Band : Bad Habit
Album title : Atmosphere
Label : AOR Heaven
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux
Release Date : 21/01/2011
Release : CD

This is the tenth album by Bad Habit since they saw the light of day somewhere in 1987.  The album starts out very strong with ‘In The Heat Of The Night’, a nice up-tempo song.  After all those years you sadly enough still can hear that they come from Sweden, cause Bax Fehling has that oh so familiar Scandinavian English accent.
The next song however ‘Words Are Not Enough’ taps from an altogether different vein.  This sounds more like Roxette and has not much to do with hard rock or AOR.  It’s not bad stuff, but this could have come from any boys band.
What is striking on this album is that all songs seem to go about love, and that to me is a bit over the top. 

Not a bad album for fans of melodic rock though.  To me it has it’s ups and downs, but the few songs I really like, like the above-mentioned opening track and the equally good ‘Break The Silence’ are of outstanding quality, while a song like ‘Only Time Will Tell’ is hurting my ears.

65/100

Erik Morren.