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Renaissance going from bad to worse. After the already not too good Azur D´or and a two year hiatus, comes the ´new´ Renaissance in form of Annie haslam, Michael Dunford and Jon Camp plus keyboards player John Gosling and drummer Peter Barron. The sound is really awful most of the time: new wave pop totally unsuited for such a great classical voice like Haslam´s. Sometimes you get a decent tune here and there that reminds you, briefly, of how good Renaissance used to be. And even then, they seem to be some leftover from Azzure D´or, or, in the case of Bonjour Swansong a Nothern Lights rip off.

Although the acoustic guitars and bass sounds are good, the keyboards are very annoying: 80´s synth pop full of cliches. I´ll give the record two stars because of some nice melodies that you can find lost in this turkey and Annie Haslam´s atempts to bring some life to those mediocre tracks. Sometimes she succeeds.

Unless you´re a Renaissance hardcore fan, avoid this record. And avoid even more its follow up, Time Line.