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Stylistically the the material on the album features elements from both the soft end of neo-progressive rock and progressive AOR/hard rock. The music sometimes reminds me of Rush on the "Hold Your Fire" (1987) album, but without reaching the same high quality of songwriting as the Canadians. Saga is also a valid reference as well as artists like Pallas and Marillion. There´s sometimes a sligthly more heavy rocking edge to the music, but again we´re in the softer end of that spectrum. The material is generally well composed (although a few more memorable hooks wouldn´t have hurt) and it´s certainly well performed by a unit of skilled musicians, but the strongly German accented English language vocals are hard to stomach and drags my rating down quite a bit. It´s not only the thick accent which makes the vocal part of the music hard to listen to though, as Oliver Philipps doesn´t have a particularly interesting voice either.

The album features a clear, detailed, and polished sounding production job, suiting the synth heavy/effect laden guitar dominated compositions well. As a second tier neo-progressive rock album this is a decent effort, but I just can´t see past the flaws of the vocals, and therefore a 3 star (60%) rating ends up being a 2.5 star (50%) rating.

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