I Have to be honest. I was a huge FW fan for a long period of time, but with age and having too many kids, I lost track. I have also just been diving soooo deep into The Astonishing, that I wasnt aware that FW was even in studio or, that they even had another album out! I was lurking and saw this thread and was like wh wh what? After seeing alot of your input, I bought it last evening and I havent stopped listening to it since. What an amazing piece of work. I thought Alder was surprisingly wonderful. i had heard his vocals were failing, but this is one of his best works in a while. I was a huge fan of Parallels and APSOG. This rivals both. Some truley, unforgetable, riffs on this album , about 2 mins into "From the Rooftops" Whoa!
"Like Stars Our Eyes Have Seen" Seven Stars" are great tracks. My favorite track I keep coming back to is The Light and Shade of Things.
stellar release!!