1. Fate Speaks. This track starts out with a nice solo classical guitar theme, ala Yes' "Roundabout" played (I think) by Clarke. Then it goes into a funky groove with some serious bass synths and Sheehan's massive wall of bass. Petrucci solos over a more melodic groove, with just the right dash of hand pyrotechnics and speed. Overall, a more laid back Petrucci, yet still highly technical. Cut to a faster groove where his solo is harmonized at light speed with nice wahwah and tapping. This leads to the first main verse section. Bret Douglas turns in his usual vocal performance ala his group, Cairo. Nothing too special here. He has a higher voice, and tends to stay within a normal two octave range. The harmony vocals by Gardner are fairly good. Sheehan adds a nice solid groove on the bass here. Cut to a nice syncopated string skipping section over harmony guitars by Petrucci for the first solo section. This leads right back into the funky groove where Bozzio adds some nice tom tom work over Sheehan's bass groove. And then we are right back into the vocal verse section. Next, James Murphy burns up the fretboard with some seriously distorted harmony licks at flying speed. Matt Guillory then takes the wheel with a Deep Purplish sounding solo, with a dash of a certain JJ on keys. Petrucci adds his 10000 notes per minute statement to the end of this section. Now we are at a nice harmony vocal section which leads in to Petrucci's umpteenth solo *grin*, although it is brief. More vocals in the same style and then Sherinian takes over the keyboard soloing. He uses a nice distorted Hammond-ish tone, similar to Kevin Moore's sound on 6:00 off of DT's "Awake". Nice scalar runs and use of the tremolo wheel. Petrucci then adds a nice melodic solo that follow the vocal pattern until we get right back into more vocals. Trent Gardner adds his own solo here. It's mixed sorta low, with Sheehan pounding his bass over top. Petrucci adds his obligatory wahwah wailing over Sheehan and Bozzio until Gardner comes back in to outro the song.

2. Fading Fast. This starts with some nice percussion over a droning synth sound, with some classical guitar styling over top. This gives way to a seriously sequenced section that sounds a little too computerized for me with it's electronic percussion. Then we go "tribal". Synth Voices over a tribal drum beat with nice synth gong and cymbals over top. The synth soloist is Gardner here. Petrucci comes in over this tribal groove with Bozzio and Sheehan really doing a great job of injecting some feel into the tune. Then, it just cuts into a slow synth percussion and keyboard pad sound ala Enya. Bradley's vocals are great!! Very melodic and very moving to me. Then we get a really nice melodic and sad solo which moves into a more triumphant anthemic feel by Petrucci over more synth pads by Gardner. Trent Gardner then takes over vocals. He tracks his vocals twice, hard right and hard left to try to make his voice sound fuller. It doesn't really do anything for me. It sounds a little to cheesy. Petrucci adds a nice little solo to match the keyboard groove.

3. No Returning. This one starts with a nice strummed acoustic groove with Gardner adding some keys over top. Petrucci adds more wahwah wailing and this gives way to Gardner with an Irish sounding trem wheel key solo. Enter Sheehan and Bozzio to groove with Gardner. Bemesderfer, who adds a really cool flute solo, is up next. Very Jethro Tull meets DT! *grin* Labrie's vocals are up next. Honestly they are very flat. It sounds like a demo. At least Gardner's vocal harmonies sound a little more inspiring. Petrucci adds his solo, replete with blues runs and some burning scalar stuff and double stops. Back to Labrie... again same ol' same ol'. Petrucci solos shortly until the end of the song.

4. Time Enough. Defintely the high point of this disc. It starts with I think Sherinian playing electric piano (see "Love Lies Bleeding" off Change of Seasons by DT) and Petrucci wah wah solo over top of this. ENTER D.C. What can I say but AWESOME!!! Vocal harmonies aplenty and it actually seems like he FEELS the lyrics on this one. This is the performance that Labrie should have turned in. Now James Murphy adds my favorite guitar part of the whole disc. A highly syncopated harmony guitar run that hangs with the groove. Then he just blazes off on his own until D.C. reenters with more harmony vocals. Wow! (I can't wait 'til my R.H. discs get here!!!) Trent adds a trombone solo for effect herer... not bad. Next up, a nice Sheehan solo... burning fingers. Bemesderfer and Howe solo together over synth pads on wind controller and acoustic guitar, respectively, until D.C. comes back in over the electric piano again. This is the best vocal part of the song for me. I almost cry every time I hear it. I GET CHILLS!!! Dang, this is cool.

5. Last Call. Back to the same groove from track 1. Labrie does a better job on this track. At least he adds some harmony vocals. Bozzio does a nice job on the double bass. Petrucci adds a very short 4 bar wahwah solo. James Murphy solo incredibly during the vocal chorus... he's great, and he leads back to wahwah Petrucci. Guillory adds a nice keyboard solo with some fast runs until the vocals come back. Murphy adds another burning solo that follows the vocal pattern and Gardner takes over the vocals. The song changes moods to slow down and Petrucci adds a very jazzy solo over the keys until adding some nice double picked stuff with strumming. More Gardner vocals in a chanting like style. Pertucci ends his contribution with more melodic soloing ala his earlier solo from track two which then transforms into wahwah madness at light speed. Bozzio goes nuts to end the disc.

Ok, that's it. I would say that as a whole it's a 7 out of 10 or so. High points are definitely Murphy and Petrucci along with Cooper's vocals. Lyrically it's not too mature for my taste. If you like Magellan, then you'll probably like this CD. I'm not a big fan. Basically it's a Magellan record with HUMAN performer's and some good to great vocalists instead of a double-tracked vocalist and electronic instruments. I'm glad I bought it, even though I'm not a Magellan fan.