Crystal Eyes - Dead City Dreaming (2006)

Crystal Eyes' fifth album has them with their third vocalist, this time Søren Nico Adamsen, and that part of the band's sound is certainly better than their early days, helped by the also much improved production.
Unfortunately, the material is often rather uninspired, and doesn't really justify all the effort.  It's mostly reasonable stuff, a bit slower than normal, and songs like "Dawn Dancer" and "Temple Of Immortal Shame" are good, while the conclusion to the final song "The Halls Of Valhalla" (there's Valhalla again) is grabbing, but too much of this sounds like the band is just going through the motions.

**1/2