When you listen to "The Savage Coast" by Imagination School – a nom de plume of film composer Laurence Harwood" – it is hard to imagine anything less savage. This instrumental collection is far more studious mood music than a purposeful stride towards chart assaulting aggression.
Don't confuse this with being mere background music though as you have to concentrate on these songs. At times, I was convinced that I was hearing a low budget pastiche of late eighties European electronic music sanitised of experimentation but it is that conformity to expectations that gives "The Savage Coast" its appeal. "Lost", for example, seems like a trivial example of the art of sequencing but that, perhaps, is the point as the pomposity beloved of so many practitioners in the genre has been replaced here with a directness that sets out not to impress but to persuade.
As a further example, the Rick Wakeman style motifs found in "A Full Moon And A Clear Tide" could easily have been developed into something grandiose but here they are stripped down into something akin to an arranger's chart with each (synthetic) instrument reassembled into the whole as if it were designed that way from the start.
Like I said, excitement is not the game here. Imagination School, fortunately, provide the evidence that this strategy can work out just fine.