The mid-tempo Another World and my personal favorites Peephole and Periled Divide. The best tracks are the moody rockers on the album. The opening song is riff based Hard Rock while the chorus is smooth AOR. The style on "World Play" is a mix between Hard Rock and AOR. Schon does play some great guitar on the album, but his guitar is too low in the mix and it doesn't stand out like on Hardline's "Double Eclipse" - the guitar sound isn't as dominant as I would have wished for and the guitar sounds more alike Journey than Hardline. "World Play" is too polished and I was hoping that Neal would use Soul SirkUs to display some of his more aggressive playing that doesn't fit in Journey. Since Soul SirkUs is formed on the idea of the "baddest band anyone's ever seen or heard' I must admit I am a little bit disappointed in the outcome from these super musicians. Playing drums on the album is former collaborator from Hardline and now Journey drummer Deen Castronovo plus Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake bass player Marco Mendoza. Neal Schon has teamed up with Jeff Scott Soto from Talisman, but probably more known in the US for doing vocals in the movie "Rock Star" and also doing vocals for Yngwie Malmsteen. Neal Schon has once again joined forces with other musicians to generate his idea "to create one of the coolest bands anyone's heard of in a long time".
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