A VALID PATH

As a long time collector and fan of The Alan Parsons Project i also found this album by far the weakest.On the previous albums although sound scapes and studio effects are well used, there has always been great melodies and strong musicianship in evidence.But here he seems to have run out of ideas and has resorted to re-hashing inferior versions of past glories.The sound scape tracks are all very similar in structure and overused.To be quite honest the whole thing is a bit of a bore.The album does have a very modern sound to it in so far as the sounds drone on and on and mabe to the generation that seems to thrive on such dross then there could well be a place for it.