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Earth & Fire's 1989 comeback was, strictly speaking, anything but - Jerney Kaagman was still the singer, but the Koerts twins (the driving force behind the original band) were entirely absent, and the music was composed by Kayak's Ton Scherpenzeel and Irene Linders. The later Kayak albums were mostly poor pop/ rock, and so is this - sounding like a continuation of Kaagman's second solo album "Run" (also penned by Scherpenzeel/Linders). One progressive break on one track is as close as the album ever comes to recapturing the classic Earth & Fire sound - but on the plus side, it's still better than "Reality Fills Fantasy".