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Neal Morse has a way of making long compositions work pretty much every time and this time it's unfortunately the shorter songs that feel very out of place between the two epic tracks. I would have preferred to have an album consisting only of the two long tracks, that add up to a whooping running time of 43+ minutes, than this current version of the release. In most case I end up skipping through these four middle tracks since they really don't add much to this album.

In fact when I copied over the CD to my portable player I skipped those tracks entirely and instead added the title-track off the band's debut album - The Light. Although it can't match the sound quality of this release this bonus track creates a much better flow for me and it would have easily made and essential Neo-Prog album.

This is of course not the case with the album as it stands today and it doesn't constitute for anything more than a very good, but non-essential release.

***** star songs: At The End Of The Day (16:30)

**** star songs: The Great Nothing (27:18)

*** star songs: Revelation (6:04) Thoughts (Part II) (4:41) All On A Sunday (4:12) Goodbye To Yesterday (4:40)

Total Rating: 3,95

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