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Title: Wide awake indeed
Review: Possibly their second-best album, after the "Scenes from a memory" tour de force. Musically both kaleidoscopic (from frenetic odd-meter beats to the almost meditative "Space dye vest") and adventurous. Favorite songs: 6:00 (whew!), Erotomania (a virtuosic instrumental which quotes rhapsodically from much of their work), and -- at the other extreme musically --- the haunting "Space-Dye vest". The lyrics are perhaps the band's weakest point --- but there's so much delicious instrumental stuff going on that you hardly notice the lyrics, and relate to the singer as the fifth instrumentalist. Unapologetically theatrical, but with the musical chops to back it up. These guys are not just very much masters of their respective instruments, but also mesh into each other like gears. Wide awake indeed!
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