Never again can us wiseasses call it corporate rock without thinking first--whatever moved Tom Scholz to craft this album a decade later, it wasn't commerciality. He's more like the Pope of latter-day arena rock, weaving together magnificent textures and soaring cathedral vocals as the articulation of an art-metal thought long extinct. Not as bad as you expected, nor worth giving a second listen to. C+

>>127296957 (OP)
>spend a decade making this thing
>still the same old late 70s sound and aesthetics as if nothing at all had changed over the preceding six years
good fucking job, Tom we were really looking forward to it