This album is blowing me away so far. In ways it's much heavier than what they've done before, but also more delicate and beautiful as well. It's amazing to see the music maturing so much and so quickly!
Can't wait for my copy to arrive next week, it's not often I get excited about all the artwork, lyrics etc. but this is easily my album of the year so far.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the bonus tracks, other than the fact that they're really nice of course, but I'm not sure they both add much. I think I've decided now that my definitive version of the album is to keep The Path Unbeaten as a closer, because the orchestral arrangement is really nice, and rounds off the album in the same way it started. Whereas Nobody is basically just an acoustic version of the song that closes the main album. So I think I might just treat Nobody as a b-side separate from the album.