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Happy to see Barock Project have progressed but still managed to stay true to their unique style. The new album sounds more modern, more diverse, more varied, and even at times heavier than the previous outputs. It's a flawless musical delivery in composition, execution and production. The album works when paying undivided attention to its many details, but it also works quite well in the background (I was cooking dinner when I gave it the first spin) providing a very pleasant and uplifting soundtrack.

For those amongst you who are not yet familiar with this Band, I struggle like on their preceding albums to draw comparisons to other bands. Barock Project somehow have defined their own genre of very melodic and uplifting 'symphonic-neo-barock-retro-folk-crossover Prog' ;-) Again like on the last album 'Skyline', Jethro Tull here and there springs to mind, but only momentarily. If I have to come up with another comparison, I am sometimes reminded of Big Big Train but with much more oomph, dynamic and variation.

So how do I rate this album? I personally don't hesitate to give big fat 5 stars as I haven't found a boring minute on this album plus the fact that the band progressed further but still sounds pleasurably familiar. Because I am really a kind of a fanboy since their Coffee in Neuk'lln album I guess, I need to subtract half a star to make up for my potential subjectivity. That gives you 4.5 stars which rounds up to five stars! Get this album is all I can say!