Your first bump into Coheed and Cambria may result in mixed feelings towards the band. It’s the voice of Claudio Sanchez that makes you feel a little embarrassed, but there’s also something weird and poppish in those constant time changes and galloping rhythms, which otherwise pretend to emulate the good ol’ 70’s prog rock. C&C’s new and final chapter of their endless space-oddity-like-saga, based upon Sanchez’s own comic books “Amory Wars”, become less complex and more focused. Still it’s as passionate as its predecessors. Comparisons with Pink Floyd and even The Who spring into mind, often unwanted and unconscious. Some parts of the epic owe much to other modern acts like The Muse. Little wonder, then, that at times C&C sound like a challenge either for old rockers, or for the current generation of emo kidos. They refuse to fall into any category and that makes things only more complicated. I admit, it’s a tough job to review this album (no, I’m not going to write down the full title one more time). Emulating Rush vocals, Zeppelin’s lurch and Floyd’s phase out might seem easy enough in 2007, but taking the end results to mainstream success requires a clear vision and balls. In truth, it’s not only the retro turbo riffs of the Billboard climber “Running Free” (with its memorable oh-oh-oh-oh sing-along) that can make you shake and twist for at least couple of minutes. In fact, C&C do a lot of things in this album, hardly any of them wrong. Possibly we still can not understand their greatness in full… if they have any.