This CD opens a new era in the FW history and the following two studio releases (especially "Disconnecetd")achieve  an absolute top performance. Finally FW took definitively distance from their very first experiences (I mean the Arch era) and try to refine and develop what good was emerging from their second phase ("No Exit", "Perfect Symmetry", especially).

APSOG is an attempt to develop a one-song work, to build a leading thread lyrically and musically. Here we can find the search of new sounds and the use of good sound effects combined with excellent tecnique.

I'd give a five-stars-rating to certain parts of it; but others doesn't really deserve such a good judgment. OK, it 's well played but it' doesn't mean that it can capture you from the beginning till the end. I think that It should have been 20 minutes shorter and maybe the output could have been more intense, involving. Sometimes I've the impression that the music "drags" itself instead of dragging me. When I listen to it I say to myself: "Well, how long does it take until this frame ends?". Even good melodies are boring when too long or replayed again and again within the same track or CD. And it does happen in APSOG.

As I said before, the whole work is not a masterpiece ,but only  some parts of it.
This CD opens a new era in the FW history and the following two studio releases (especially "Disconnecetd")achieve  an absolute top performance. Finally FW took definitively distance from their very first experiences (I mean the Arch era) and try to refine and develop what good was emerging from their second phase ("No Exit", "Perfect Symmetry", especially). APSOG is an attempt to develop a one-song work, to build a leading thread lyrically and musically. Here we can find the search of new sounds and the use of good sound effects combined with excellent tecnique. I'd give a five-stars-rating to certain parts of it; but others doesn't really deserve such a good judgment. OK, it 's well played but it' doesn't mean that it can capture you from the beginning till the end. I think that It should have been 20 minutes shorter and maybe the output could have been more intense, involving. Sometimes I've the impression that the music "drags" itself instead of dragging me. When I listen to it I say to myself: "Well, how long does it take until this frame ends? ". Even good melodies are boring when too long or replayed again and again within the same track or CD. And it does happen in APSOG. As I said before, the whole work is not a masterpiece ,but only  some parts of it.