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Galleon's debut album ticks all the neo-prog boxes without particularly excelling at anything or bringing many innovative ideas to the table. Göran Fors' vocals aren't brilliant, but are at least able to inject a little drama into proceedings from time to time, but the instrumental delivery is decidedly pedestrian. On top of that, the songs themselves just aren't very memorable or interesting; it sounds at points as though the band were angling for some degree of commercial success, since the music sometimes reminds me of the sort of material IQ and Pendragon were putting out in the late 1980s when they were trying to achieve something approximating a commercial breakthrough (and failing). For utter neo-prog fanatics only.