Ten years into his career
Ferry Corsten finally released a full-length under his own name. While a handful of the tracks are previously released and nearly have skin cancer from all the exposure,
Corsten turns
Right of Way into a hang-together album with some excellent new material. Proven hits "Punk" and the nearly as good "Rock Your Body, Rock" are loud, brash, and inescapably catchy, but the softer and more cerebral side of
Corsten gets some airtime with dreamy new material. "Kyoto" and the closing "In My Dreams" are the best examples of this otherworldly
Corsten; both being lighter than his work as
System F and about three times as rewarding. The man is great at choosing vocalists as well. The gutsy
Esmee Bor Stotijn sounds absolutely in charge on "It's Time," and
Shelly Harland's two tracks add a sweet, ethereal deepness to the album. A couple lesser tracks could have been weeded out, and one wishes the storming single "Indigo" could have been included. Otherwise
Right of Way is one of those rare, almost solid trance albums with plenty of good ideas past the singles.