Listen: Nite Flights – “From Her To Infinity”

“From Her To Infinity”, our first taste of the self-titled EP from Nite Flights (side-project of Azure Blue mastermind Tobias Isaksson) is a five-minute span of interstellar disco. Built around rubbery bass and Space Mountain strobes of synthesizer noise, the song manages to be both a completely serviceable club-pop construction and an amiably free-range slab of ambience.

Glittering keyboards occasionally bubble up and the song’s rigid four-on-the-floor beat is occasionally cut up with extra whispers of trickling computerized hi-hats, but otherwise the song is rock-stead, a straight line whose vague ups and downs are of the small-detail variety. Nite Flights is being touted as a collaboration between Isaksson and graphic designer Slobodan Zivic, and one can imagine the ways in which the galactic audio cinematics of “From Her To Infinity” might really come alive with some visual accompaniment – like some sort of still-life reinvention of Fantasia.

The song seems custom-made for gazing over star maps or radio telescope color-bursts. On the project’s soundcloud page, “From Her To Infinity” is tagged with the word “cosmic”; an apt description for a song that seems to hang out in the atmosphere like distant light.