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Title: Best IQ album... ever!
Review: Everything IQ are expert at is here in perfect form. Their rising and floating melodies; their trade-off of punch and grace; their immaculate production values; every player plying his craft with imagination and care -- there's not a wasted second on this disc. Though only half the length of their masterful "Subterranea," there's something more wonderful about this one; a more interesting atmosphere. The opening chord progression, an eerie and elegant synth cry (very reminiscent of "Eleventh Earl of Mar" by Genesis) will hook you instantly, and you won't be able to move until the closing notes of the final track. One lyric in particular caught me: "Whenever heaven calls us there's regret and compromise, and in another distance lies a past unrealized." Utterly, utterly lovely. I wish the enitre world would sit down and give this an undivided listen.
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