Eric Woolfson
sang lead on the softest, smoothest hits
Alan Parsons Project
had -- the run in the early '80s that included
"Eye in the Sky"
and
"Don't Answer Me."
Woolfson
parted with
Parsons
after the musical
Freudiana
in 1990, and while the
Project
never recorded another album, there was still some unfinished business left for the singer to tidy up with 2008's
Sings the Alan Parsons Project That Never Was
. When
Sony/Legacy
was preparing deluxe reissues of
APP
albums, they contacted
to see if there were any unreleased tracks or songs in the vaults. The singer/songwriter dug up some cuts for the expanded CDs but also found a batch of unfinished songs that he decided to complete for this album, rounding out the record with some songs that he would have submitted to
if they had indeed recorded more albums. It's not too shocking to find
following the silken road he paved with those soft rock hits: this is
as if
were in charge, emphasizing melody over concept, far over concept, which is by no means a bad thing, as this is sweet, silken, soft rock, the kind of which that has been unheard since
sung on those
hits in the early '80s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine