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Track Listing: Space Evolutionary King Integral Wheels Within Wheels

Re-Traced features remixed versions of some of the songs from 2008's Traced In Air and a new unreleased song. Cynic is about as good as progressive metal gets. I was a bit young to really have appreciated Focus when it came out, I re-discovered it later and fell in love with it. When Traced in Air came out in 2008 it blew me away. That record has maintained a constant place on my playlists since it was released.

The unreleased song 'Wheels within wheels', easily fits among Cynic's best songs to date. It's a little less death metal and more prog/fusion, but it still has a heavy feel to it. "Integral", which is a re-make of the totally amazing track "Integral Birth", easily my favorite song from the Traced in Air album. The version on Re-Traced is a stripped down acoustic version that shows off just what an amazing song the track is at its root. "Integral" sounds out of this world with a simple acoustic guitar, a little bit of keyboards, some female vocals and a focus on the beautiful song structure and the lights out writing that make Cynic one of the best bands on the planet right now.

Fans of Traced in Air and Cynic in general should buy this. This EP just gets me excited for more new Cynic in the upcoming couple of years. The only people who shouldn't buy this album are people who for some reason haven't gone back and checked out the previous Cynic records.But once you've gone back and checked those CDs, you should rush out and buy this magnificent EP.

To buy the EP and for more information please visit Cynic's official myspace.