Frontiers managed to give
Journey four Top 40 hits, with "After the Fall" and "Send Her My Love" both reaching number 23, "Faithfully" at number 12, and "Separate Ways" peaking at number eight -- the same amount that 1981's
Escape brandished. While they tried to use the same musical recipe as
Escape,
Frontiers comes up a little short, mainly because the keyboards seem to overtake both
Schon's guitar playing and
Steve Perry's strong singing. An overabundance of
Jonathan Cain's synth work cloaks the quicker tunes and seeps into the ballads, slightly widening the strong partnership of
Perry and
Schon.
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