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Let's do a track-by-track analysis:

Cosmic Jazz: It could easily be a Leonard Cohen cover, but it's actually a Martin Turner song. Not my taste, but not a bad song at all. The riff is pretty memorable too.

Keeper Of The Light: More simplistic than I would like it, the vocal lines sound a bit childish too. Not a special song for me.

Mental Radio: Pop rock form, with hyper simplistic lyrics and vocal lines. Nothin' fancy.

Walk On The Water: Quite intelligent lyrics, enjoyable rhythm, not bad vocal lines. A more than OK song, better than the previous.

Witness To Wonder: A monotonous song with no high points. Indifferent.

Lost Cause In Paradise: What do we got here? Strange keyboard intro with army drums creating an nitro for a song with a pretty catchy riff and unique sound, a song that gains you attention from the very beginning and rewards you for that. A very good song!

Why Don't We: A nice song that could be part of the No Smoke Without Fire album. Maybe the second best song so far.

In The Case: An instrumental in the spirit of Nouveau Calls, albeit better than most of the tracks from NC. I like it and I moved along to the rhythm!

Hole In My Heart (part 1): A slow instrumental with great bass that could be an Elton John composition, pleasant and ethereal. it fades into...

Hole In My Heart (part 2): ...which is a jazz workout, demonstrating the guitar skills of the duo and completing a quality trio of instrumental tracks.

RATING: The A-Side (songs 1-5) was largely dissapointing. The B-Side was much better, including the stand-out song of the album and all of the songs were of a dignified level at the very least. Very difficult to rank it among the other albums form the 2,5 stars pool (New England, Front Page News, Just Testing)... The fact that it's so uneven makes it even more difficult. Out of my guts, I'll give it 2,5 stars (so 3) but rank it lower than any other 2,5 stars album by them; better than Nouveau Calls but worst than New England.

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