Holland aren’t quite a “one and they’re done” band because they released two albums, albeit fourteen years apart. This album came out in ’85 and is a nice slab of rock/pop. Also, this is the first album that guitar whizz Michael Angelo Batio appeared on and it has to be said, his playing does lift the songs. The band are based around the husky tones of vocalist Tom Holland, but it’s Batio that steals the show.

Highlights are Love In On Time, Sacrifice (very Def Leppard), and my favourite Wake Up The Neighbourhood. They up the speed and groove on this one and Batio is awesome. There are also a couple of stinkers and I guess that’s why they were dropped after this album.

It’s okay and a pleasant enough listen, and it’s cool to hear Batio in a more restrained mode.

6.5/10 from The Grooveman.