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Title: Playing too much and making music suffer
Review: Dream theater is a band of amazing musicians, but music suffers when they try show off their every little skill all at the same time. That's the problem with Awake: too much playing compromising the natural flow of the melodical lines, excessively intrincate harmonies deviating attention from their wonderful basic music ideas and lyrics. If only they had step back their playing just a bit, this would have been a serious candidate to top any rock album of the decade review list.
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