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The album has a reputation for boasting some of the best material in the band's repertoire. Absolute bonafide classics such as 'Soldier Of The Line', 'The Spirit', 'Sacred Hour' and 'The Lights Burned Out' have become live staples and feature prominently on just about every 'best of' compilations, and they all hail from this glorious album.

The liner notes and photo production are excellent additions even featuring a revealing interview with Clarkin. The front cover is one of their proggiest and a definite drawcard for me when choosing a magnum album. The bonus tracks feature the live EP in its entirety and some rare A and B sides to singles plus live renditions of some of the classic tracks.

I bought this due to the band's reputation and the prog style cover - I must say I was pleasantly surprised at the great quality of this album. Not everything on it works for me and a great deal of it is not what one might call true prog but it is definitely related to the genre, and the songs are high quality rock standards; not complex or with interchanging time signatures, and not lengthy, but innovative and well produced with great vocal performances and musicianship.

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