I got the digital version of Acoustic Adventures because it's out now in Japan and I have thoughts!
1) Some songs are nice to hear during a gig but idk about their inclusion here - they
are different enough, but ehhh about Alone In Heaven and Tonight I Dance Alone (Mora skipping SGHN songs, who's shocked). Surprisingly maybe even my fave On The Faultline, which sounds very good here but is so perfect on the album already. Tallulah should be in this group but somehow it's justifying itself to me for now
2) It's great to have an album where I would change absolutely nothing about the mix after literally 10 years. Everything sounds very clear and natural and balanced. Seeing how they recorded the instrumental tracks by having the four of them sitting down all together and recording a good continuous live take for each song and it sounds this good in the end, I hope this turns on a few lightbulbs that whatever they did with Talviyö to "get a live sound" on that album probably wasn't correct
3) Don't Say A Word and Wolf & Raven are, predictably, kind of nuts. Go off kings.
4) The arrangement of The Wolves Die Young surprised me, in a really good way. The difference in this version of A Little Less Understanding isn't surprising seeing how we've heard it already, but I still don't know if I even like the song after all the effort they put into it
5) Faves after a few listens are Paid In Full and For The Sake Of Revenge. No, I'm not a hopeless Unia/prog era stan, why are you asking. I hope one of them is the music video.
6) Tony is really playing with his voice here, which is pretty nice. He has a few spots still where on certain vowels in certain points of his range something sounds not-really-normal, that remain from whatever we noticed was wrong with his voice around 2019ish. But the positive changes of age on his voice are really working for me here, especially when you consider how stripped down the whole thing is and how many of the songs are still in their original keys or close to them - I thought that for instance they would take The Wolves Die Young a good notch down, and you can hear in the vocal take that it would have been a decent idea, but the chorus is pretty high and he just goes for it. The smallest imperfections have nowhere to hide but the human element/dimension of this is cool.