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Another genuine prog album in the 00's?? Unfortunately I struggle with progs after somewhere around the 2000's, I've come to think of a massive bulk of it as cold 'tribute prog'. This is a real prog album, not a tribute to golden days that once were, while proving VDGG's 3rd period has as much a valid existence as those before!

My primary concern coming into this album was the amount of guitar there could be, a main thing for me in the Graaf is the exclusion of guitars, thankfully it's somewhat sparingly used and infrequently dominant the mix. I do find occasionally something is missing, obviously it's Jackson, but they've not filled the void he left with much (I'd take this over more guitar!) and I'm guessing so they can perform the material faithfully with just the three of them? Anyway's, the material is brilliant with the album picking up nicely after the middle track Drop Dead, I think is a low point on the album along with opener, The Hurlyburly, both track's feature guitar and both remind me of mid-quality Atomic Rooster. The last half and main chunk of the album is pure class VDGG!

The production quality is ok, if not a bit little disappointing for 2008, a step back from Present's very live uncompressed sound, I think mix suffers when things start getting rather heavy and hectic, especially the drums and bass get gobbled up in the multitude of keyboardlike things. A proper quality re-mix and master on this album would do a world of good.

If Drop Dead wasn't sat in the middle of an amazing flow of tracks, this might be 4 stars.

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