Earlier Procol Harum albums have been keyboard-oriented--two guys on keys (Gary Brooker and Matthew Stewart)--each on one instrument (piano and organ respectively) without a synth or mellotron in sight. Now you've got both men at the same stations as back then, but willya listen to the difference!--it's the rhythm section that rules. Procol were always the blue-eyed soulmen of light prog (or maybe vice versa), but this album is funky even when it's mellow--case in point, the very dancy "Man With a Mission" with its pulsing bass-and-drum groove that Marcus Miller would approve of. Maybe it's because guitarist Robin Trower has been a Heavy Blues icon since he left this band a quarter century ago, and revisits his old band with his current bass player (Dave Bronze) in tow. Whatever it was, we get to hear what amounts to a fusion of the two styles that's interesting to say the least. Still, it's a good thing this lineup didn't become permanent--what would we do without Trower and Bronze working their own gig?