Some things are better off being left in the ashes - and this phoenix should never have arisen from the ashes! Asia has risen from the ashes once more, but I can't really see this album re-establish their popularity of old days.

First of all, the music is not as strong as all of their earlier stuff and is nowhere near their first two albums. Secondly their music do not appeal to a very wide audience these days, time has passed them by and their style somewhere in the grey zone between rock and pop is outdated and peaked many, many moon ago.

The music is well written, played and produced, but way to soft to attract any attention from our normal readers. With a few exceptions there is simply too much 'tra-la-la-la', I miss everything I like about music: power, guitars! and balls. For absolute hardcore Asia fans only!