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So today, I start the day with this album and then Pride by Arena. The crazy thing is just how far the neo-prog tag can go in my explorations. Now if you have two hours, I want you to play both albums back-to-back, and tell me which one deserves the neo-prog tag more. Now, Arena's Pride is wild, inventive and accessible and proggy enough to work for its fifty-five minutes. This, however, is a prog-less, overdrawn, sappy and dramatic seventy-minute album that takes absolutely no time to do anything that's truly inventive. Every song is only basically enjoyable because the instrumentation and production are fine at the very best. But overall, this lacks any sense of imagination and might as well be adult contemporary rock with some decent rhythms. It's a shame. Pallas' first album and the live one actually took some time to be proggy. This is just sappy. I'm getting pretty sick of all the synth-driven pop rock and AOR bands from 80's Britain getting lumped in with true neo-prog.

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