Line Up: Jeff Scott Soto - Vocals; Marcel Jacob - Guitars, Bass; Fredrik Åkesson - Guitars; Jamie Borger - Drums, Percussion

Another high quality release from this Swedish-American alliance. The track sequencing was apparently messed up on this particular copy because several tracks show up as one. Contains excellent cover of Seal's "Crazy". The track's groovy mood is perfect for Talisman.

The following (and on this pressing the same) track "Body" is an unusually aggressive number. Excellent! Everything here is really good actually. Even the admittedly cliche hard rock lyrics don't sound bad because Soto really sings it like he means it. This is a bit more of a safe release than Humanimal.

Unfortunately, this would be the last Talisman CD for a while and last one with the talented Fredrik Åkesson who left, frustrated with the lack of touring opportunities and no outlet for his own creativity (although previous CD, Humanimal actually includes one track of his, "Blissful Garden" a rather different and heavily distorted track that sounds a lot like the stuff from Åkesson's next project Southpaw). Jacob and Soto would do a couple of albums under the name Human Clay, with Jacob handling all the instrumentation, and Yngwie doing a few solos, in return for the Soto's contribution to his Inspiration CD.

Japanese edition of this CD has a different mix and track sequence. Soto insists that the European release has a superior mix because they had more time to tinker with it, while Japanese label, as usual, pressed them for the finished product ASAP. European version may be a little heavier. Japanese CD also has 2 bonus tracks.

One of the is pretty good, although neither are up there with Talisman classics.