Great start, nice and bold, that develops into an electronic awakening. Bright, optimistic synthetics. The Mission stays positive, with appropriate voice sample. Even Hibernation maintains the sense that all is well, some sort of reasonable sleep in space while machinery and technology take over the mundanity of travelling light years in distance. The Incident suggests that something goes wrong, First Born wakes up in the wrong place, even to the extent of losing a travelling companion. Then, Here Be Dragons, implies a place of unexpected arrival. Even still the optimistic electronics continue, with some fairly wild electric guitar sounds that develop changes in the sense of the track. Nice work.
Lost is literally meaning, from the words, lost in space. Not at destination and the technology seems to be malfunctioning, light years away from point of intended arrival being The Trifid Nebula, a place of new stars collectively spawning in Sagittarius (appropriate to me and my birthsign, coincidentally). A place known as a stellar nursery. The Funeral is as about as negative as it gets, the astronaut stuck in uncharted space, and a death seems to have occurred and the body becoming part of the nebula itself, being a comfort to the survivor. Suitably touching towards the end of the track. Then, it seems there still remains A Chance, optimism within optimistic music, seems to be about travelling through a wormhole to get a short-cut route to the original destination point (being the nebula aforementioned).
A more serious intonation is evidently referring to this slim chance of mission recovery. The Good News is that the last ditch attempt at recovery brings the astronaut to the Fomalhaut Star, named after a demon and surrounded by red gases as interpreted by light transmission and reception by the human eye. Different constellation, but what the hell, it's somewhere that can be navigated by. Gazing At Wonders brings back the positivity. I think it's the nearest star with associated planets, albeit uninhabitable but nonetheless planets. Then we start to generalise conceptually with, Through The Solar System. The original mission seeming to make the most of the incident of going off course. Still positive in the face of cosmic adversity.
Orbiting brings this astronaut into closer contact with a point of nearing touchdown, even if it is not with the original mission plan in mind. By a strange coincidence it seems the planet in mind has a sustainable atmosphere, consisting of nitrogen and oxygen. Therefore, this leads to The Descent to a planet in the mouth of a stellar whale. Wouldn't it be too coincidental if 'First Born's' name was Jonah!) The Last Transmission belies the discovery of another race of beings, apparently reverent towards First Born. Then, so to The Astronaut (Finale). Will this new race benefit from First Born's knowledge of terrestrial history, will they learn from his knowledge of our mistakes. Nice thought, but if this new race are anything like us, I reserve judgement and remain doubtful, even though the overall essence of the album is generally positive. It's too neat and tidy to be believable beyond being the script of some utopian film. Nice electronics, with a complete conceptual background.
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