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I've been surprised to see only 6 reviews and with a so low rating for this album. It's not a masterpiece, and the sound is strongly dated to the 80s, but it's not so bad. The first track is enjoyable, even if Pink Floyd are very far from here. Take into account that when the album was released, PF were still in the immediate post-Waters era, so this album might have given to Gilmour and Mason the opportunity to think to a reunion. Gilmour plays on Lie for a lie, that's also the leading track of the album. It features the vocals of Maggie Reilly, recognisable by her Rs, that was protagonist of the incredible success of Oldfield's Moolight Shadow one year before. All the other songs are nothng more than enjoiable 80s fashioned tracks, but what makes this album interesting for a PF fan is its longes track: Profiles part 1. The rhythm and the acoustic guitar remind to the middle part of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, and the only concession to the 80s sound is the "hard" passage that breaks the initial theme and brings on the second. It's a 3 stars only, but I find that the current average rate is really too low.

This album, unlike Nick Mason's previous release, "Fictitious Sports" should please Pink Floyd fands. Although Mason and Rick Fenn play most of the instruments on the album, there is a definite Floyd feeling throughout the first side of the record. And David Gilmour makes an appearance, too, singing lead on Lie For A Lie. Rick Fenn's guitar is so Gilmour-like so often that I wonder if he didn't get effects tips from Gilmour himself.

Israel the opener of side 2 of the record, has Danny Petronel singing. And he sure has his David Bowie on for that recording. Much of side 2 is in a more 1980's electronic vein, and for that, it seems much more dated than the first side. But it's still not a bad album.