After a gap of two years during which Alan Parsons moved to America, decided he didn’t like it, and moved back to England, the last official Project album is a welcome return to some of the band’s original artistic standards. Orchestral arrangements laced with Spanish guitar pay homage to architect Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926), whose unimaginably grandiose La Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona was never finished (and supposedly couldn’t be finished unless construction continued constantly for centuries). The track of the same name as Gaudi’s masterpiece of design is a majestic ode to the impossibility of completing the dream. There is still an abundance of synthesizers and pop-oriented material on Gaudi, but 
unlike its two predecessors, the album achieves a balance of the old and the new. The heartbreaker for this album is “Inside Looking Out”, a six-minute Eric Woolfson extravaganza that succeeds in its very spare instrumentation and surprisingly ends on an atypically hopeful note.
- La Sagrada Familia (8:44)
- Too Late (4:34)
- Closer To Heaven (5:54)
- Standing On Higher Ground (5:02)
- Money Talks (4:23)
- Inside Looking Out (6:19)
- Paseo de Gracia (3:43)
Released by: Arista
Release date: 1987
Total running time: 38:39