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Sky's final studio album seems them taking a 1980s take on one of the earliest brands of progressive rock endeavour - adding rock instrumentation to classical music. This feels like a step down compared to The Great Balloon Race, which had been something of a return to form - here we're either dealing with a fairly standard take on Mozart with band contributions too subtle to be transformative, or the band jamming away with the orchestral guests pushed into the background.

It's a fun whistle-stop tour of some of the highlights of Mozart's discography, and I guess doing the whole "rocking the classics" thing which was popular in the early days of prog with updated 1980s instrumentation is original, but it feels unambitious - not in terms of the musical presentation, because that at least is doing something new by setting the band against a full orchestra (though isn't the point of their rock-classical blend that they can achieve orchestral sounds without resorting to that?), but in compositional terms, since it feels like you don't take this path unless you're well and truly out of original songwriting ideas and want to resort to something perennially popular.

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