Listened to it a ton non-stop for the first month after it arrived and loved it. It has since lost some of it's sheen...
There are many things I like about it: Primarily I like it's vision of DT, it's return to that core sound of prog/pop/metal balance.
The primary weakness of the album is the melodic and dynamic simplicity of it's vocals. There's a lot of interesting musical interplay of riffs and sounds coming from the instruments, but the vocal melodies almost always take the easiest route through them all. This can give a nice "soaring" effect to a song like On the Backs of Angels, but when repeated on nearly every song makes the album too one-dimensional. I get a similar feeling when listening to one of LaBrie's solo albums: the vocal lines are too easy, too generic. Not that they are too easy to sing, but they are the easiest choice, melodically. There are no vocal acrobatics, no curveballs, no choices that make me sit up and take notice. The results of which are, for me, a somewhat shallow and short-lived album listening experience.