(Review from imarocker.com, progarchives.com)

Flying in on the wind of change in 1981 along with the NWOBHM, Nightflight is a much harder but still melodic release to their earlier albums.

The opening arpeggio guitar notes are guaranteed to make you tingle as they waft out of the speakers, building into killer riffs, crashing drums and an infectious melody, powered with galloping bursts of crashing cymbals supporting melancholy, but uplifting lyrics. The song fades off then ends in a reprise featuring solid drums from Steve Williams and a great hammer-on guitar solo, classic playing from John Thomas.

“Keeping a Rendezvous” quickly follows with a great hookline sang with a harmony that sticks in the head, and remains a real anthem to the many Budgie fans. Another very solid performance on “Reaper and the Glory”, an infectious shuffle beat drives this song, vocals and bass from Burke Shelley are consistent and powerful, classic rock. “She Used Me Up” contains some classic cliched heavy rock lyrics but works beautifully, even contains some classic Sabbath sounding riffs which fit in very well.

Side two kicks off with the boogie style, slowly-building (on drums) “Don’t Lay Down and Die”. On “Apparatus” we see a change in the dynamic, with the tempo dropping and some of Thomas’s nice guitar play coming to the fore, the heartfelt vocal takes centre stage and is a nice platform for Shelley to show his ‘Celtic’ brogue. The faster paced “Superstar” has a very infectious riff driven along with a stomping beat, the vocals fitting in with slightly offbeat timing which works perfectly.

The closer “Untitled Lullaby” is surprisingly a short instrumental piece (given Budgie’s closer epics), rounds the proceedings off in atmospheric style, with sweeping winds and metallic sounding acoustic guitar.

Line-up:
- Burke Shelley / bass, lead vocals
- John Thomas / guitar
- Steve Williams / drums

Track List:
01. I Turned To Stone – 6:11
02. Keeping A Rendezvous – 3:45
03. Reaper of the Glory – 3:50
04. She Used Me Up – 3:17
05. Don’t Lay Down and Die – 3:35
06. Apparatus – 2:52
07. Superstar – 3:28
08. Change Your Ways – 4:22
09. Untitled Lullaby – 1:16

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