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Rating: The market sees the return of one of the most important AOR - Hard Rock bands in history, Journey, with this excellent "Revelations"!
Before the album's release, there was a lineup change: the singer Jeff Scott Soto left the band just one year after joining, and he was replaced by the unknown singer Arnel Pineda.
The result is a magnificent album, with no song below average, and with excellent performances by all members.
The songs on the album can be grouped into two categories: melodic Hard Rock tracks and splendid ballads.
Among the Hard Rock tracks, the opener "Never Walk Away" is very beautiful, immediately showcasing Pineda's great potential, the energetic and sunny "Change For The Better", but most notably the dreamy "Wildest Dream", which more than any other highlights the qualities of each musician, thanks to an excellent guitar solo by Neal Schon and a finale with tough drum rolls and swirling piano scales.
But there are also sublime ballads, like "Faith In The Heartland" (already present on Generation), "After All These Years", chosen as a single, "Like A Sunshower" (one of those classic songs to listen to at sunset...) and the moving "Turn Down The World Tonight", the best ballad of the album which reaches incredible emotional peaks.
The best song of the album is "The Journey (Revelation)", which does not belong to any of the aforementioned categories. The track consists of a beautiful guitar solo by Schon, which alternates considerable virtuosity and technique with various emotions: unease, but at the same time confidence, even passing through emotion...
Revelation also contains a second album, which I won't review because it's just a greatest hits compilation made for the occasion.
In summary, this is a magnificent album, which can only be given full marks, especially when considering the advanced age of the musicians. I don't think it's something you see every day to create an album like Revelation at 60 years old...
Tracklist and Lyrics
05 Faith in the Heartland (06:18)
(Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon, Steve Augeri)
He goes to work in a brand new dawn
With the early morning sunrise
He's got his dream and he's holding on
It's getting harder every day
Loves a girl who speaks her mind
Don't always look at life the same way
Sharing truth that will heal in time
They wanna believe something real still they're searching
They're keeping the faith in the heartland tonight
Time moves on as a fading town, they struggle with the changes
The stores have closed, friends have moved away
Now it's hope that sees them through
The kids have gone but they'll see them all
At the Sunday congregation
Sharing dreams truth will heal in time
They wanna believe something real still they're searching
They're keeping the faith in the heartland tonight
I's words that divide them, it's love that defines them
They're keeping the faith in the heartland tonight
In our darkest hour we look to the sky
With a silent prayer believe that God's on our side
In a land where freedom rings and where eagles fly
They wanna believe something real still they're searching
They're keeping the faith in the heartland tonight
It's words that divide them, it's love that defines them
They're keeping the faith in the heartland tonight
I just wanna believe it
Give me something to believe in
We all need something to believe in
In the heart tonight
Got faith, got dreams, believe
We're keeping the faith alive
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