IMAGES AT TWILIGHT

After their almost symphonic debut which was also a very good album you could expect something like this of their successor. But that's not really the case I must say. Images at Twilight is a really nice album but alas less than the debut. The first 3 tracks are quite cheerfull songs, a style that wasn't to be found on the first album, so that already indicates a change in style. It's all more accessable, I'll leave it up to you if that's an advantage or not. The 4th song, You're not alone is a live cracker they play on many of their gigs. Take it or leave is again in the style of the first three. Then comes the highlight to me, one of my all time favourites by Saga, Images. This is a wonderful progressive song that could have been on their first album where style is concerned. Hot to Cold and Mouse in a maze are more of the accessable stuff again so that means six out of eight in that vein. Hard to judge in what kind of result this has to end up. It's somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. But my love for Saga (and that lasts already for over 20 years) makes it 4.