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There are a handful of tracks which entertain and invoke the classic sound of HTM...Rosenthal's Contemporary Insanity is a promising opener, and the next two songs present a pleasing updated version of HTMs sound.

Also, Whitaker's guitar work gives Lunch At The Psychodelicatessan and Barking Spiders some bite.

But FAR too much of the remainder of this disc sounds like new age music.

While there are a few flashes of the classic HTM sound, particularly on the previously mentioned up-tempo tracks.what is lacking is the intensity that made HTMs slower, quieter pieces unique.

Maui Sunset (the title hints at it's lameness), Slipstream and Adrift are all slow, numbing, new-age garbage that can be found on the types of CDs sold in gift shops that smell like boxes of scented candles. The lone exception is Kindred Spirits, which, while slow and pensive, does maintain a level of intensity.

The closing track, Il Quinto Mare sounds like John Tesh...irritating, synthesized crescendos coupled with guitar power chords...all leading nowhere...blechhh.

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