"This twelfth work, room with Roadrunner and the second with Mike Mangini on the sticks, lasts about an hour, and is a work consisting of 9 songs that take us back to a more melodic and traditional composition of their early years, but by mixing it with the toughness, speed and epic ambition that characterized them since. Most of the songs are about 5 to 7 minutes, and two of them (The Looking Glass and Surrender To Reason) are very reminiscent of the most classic Rush, while the majestic, multifaceted and predominantly instrumental epic 19 minutes, Illumination Theory , closing ago and boasts an exquisite neoclassical centerpiece, courtesy of keyboardist Jordan Rudess, which gives an unexpected reprieve to a potentially frantic work."
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"This album has a more commercial twist that will allow disciples of Dream Theater and progressive fans in general put it to the uninitiated and to those they like without fear of being frightened by the avalanche of notes that is upon them . Dream Theater have explored different approaches to music over the years, but it seems that the stigma of breathtakingly ambitious epic music and remains a constant in them."
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