Whenever person A hears "progressive" anything, they automatically blow a load over Dream Theater, ignoring fantastic bands like Linear Sphere, Ayreon, and now, Project Creation as well.

The Floating World is a concept album about, you guessed it, a floating world! Even though it sounds kind of strange, it's got a very twilight zone motif. The floating world is apparently a nation of free people traveling through space who happen upon a dead and deserted world with strange gardens. It turns out, this world is Earth. Damn you, Al Gore!

There's no real need to worry if the concept sounds too "Planet of the Apes"-ish, because the music is fantastic. The orchestration is extremely involved and detailed. Instruments layer and cascade over each other, producing other-worldly textures. While Hugo Flores and Carlos Mateus might not be next in line to Vai or Petrucci, their chops on guitar are more than suited to tackle the technicality needed to play this sort of music.

The music also seems to connect to the central theme, being very spacey and pristine with fantastic piano and flute sequences.

The Floating World is an album that should please most prog rock and metal fans. While it's certainly not the greatest thing to grace progressive music, it's definitely a very viable alternative to the standard stuff like Dream Theater. For fans of Inside Out records stuff, definitely. (7/10)