In the end, this album meant a point in the trajectory of Camel. Latimer repeats the formula of The Single Factor, but with themes of greater weight and with more elaborate harmonic developments. Instrumental themes and high-end ballads triumph, with the occasional "dismemberment", but a record more than correct in its entirety. If you expect a progressive super disc from Camel, this is not your album ... but if you expect a pleasant and addictive listening album, this disc is. Get any ear to accommodate your listening, the music will please both the "fine" listener and the most commercial listener, it is a record with a magnificent production. Very well crafted, and well intertwined themes, being a conceptual work or a group of loose songs.
Latimer featured the usual collaborating musicians of The Alan Parsons Project, David Paton and Chris Rainbow, and also the fabulous Mel Collins and two new musicians, drummer Paul Burgess (a discovery by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull), and a brilliant keyboardist, the Dutchman Ton Scherpenzeel de Kayak. From this album Camel's conceptual work is increasing, clearly surpassing progressive disc-to-disc doses ... without this disc, the evolution of Camel from Breathless to Dust & would not be understood Dreams or Rajaz. Essential disc in any good discography.
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