I first caught on to the Clan with the "Creatures" album, considered by many, including me, to be their best work. This new one is a real step above even those excellent albums release before , adding back a very 80's synthesizer approach to the mix. All with great, catchy songs, yes, that's exactly what we have here. Generally upbeat, but still darkwavish and gothy, there's also one song "Sea of doubt", the album's only real ballad, that The Cure's Robert Smith could take a cue from for their next album. In fact, if Ronny Moorings decided to do an album's worth of songs in this vein, we'd have another "Disintegation" on our hands! Overall, one of the best CoX albums ever - along with their album "Creatures", most defintitely up there (and even surpassing) the other classics like "Medusa". Not bad for a band who are still around after 25 years! Finally an album I can listen to again for a long time!