I have never really been a FW fan. I have pointed that out in the past.
I love The Astonishing. I still have no idea where I will ultimately rank it because, notwithstanding that I really like it, I don't know if it will really have a lot of staying power in the long run. But I do love it.
And yet, Theories of Flight may end up being my album of the year for 2016. It is that good. Since SFAM, I have never not had a DT album as my album of the year in a year they had a release (in 2009, Redemption and Transatlantic challenged BCSL, but at least at the time, I still gave the nod to DT). But this album is that good. What a huge accomplishment for a band that is this far into their career.