ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY ?

The second and final IQ album to feature Paul Menel on vocals isn't a whole lot more satisfying than Nomzamo, though it does at least manage to alleviate some of that album's more irritating aspects and starts pointing to a viable direction IQ might have taken to salvage their Menel-era sound - though events would soon overtake them and render the point moot.

Whilst like its predecessor it really contains no material to compare to the high standards of Tales From the Lush Attic or The Wake, it at least doesn't have any tracks quite as transparently devoted to chasing fleeting chart success as the most commercially-leaning picks from Nomzamo - though Drive On was apparently their last-chance bid for a hit single, and is pretty catchy in its own way. Like Nomzamo, though, it's perhaps best to see it as the work of a different band that happened to share the IQ name, because if you go in expecting anything like what we've come to expect from IQ here you'll be disappointed and not receptive to picking up on what merits the album has.