No more instrumental back-and-forth stuff. Ever since Six Degrees, and even more so on ToT, we've seen this (except for maybe Octavarium). Yeah, it was cool on The Glass Prison. It was cool in Blind Faith. But it just doesn't work very well past that. When looking back at IaW to FII (and SFAM to an extent), they did have heavy instrumental stuff, but it was so well-placed and well-written that it worked. I'm thinking Metropolis, Trial of Tears, The Mirror/Lie, New Millennium, Learning to Live...everything just felt necessary to the songs. I really hope that DT11 is along those lines. But I'm not sure who was the influence behind that or how MP's absence will affect it.
Thoughts?