This album brings an element that has been light or missing on several previous albums, good old-fashioned piano. The few times JR uses it really elevates the song in a way I haven't heard since About To Crash, this needs to become more prominent in the future.
There is actually a lot of piano on every single DT album that JR has played on.
Yep. It may not always feature prominently and upfront, but there's piano on a lot more than people realize, although DT's music is so dense, and JR's keyboards so layered (and often mixed low), that a lot of people probably miss it. Looking at their recent few albums, these are the songs there is some form of piano in (I may even be missing some)-
ToT - every song but As I Am, and HTF, and that's on the balls to the wall heavy album.
8V - every single song
SC - every single song, again on a pretty heavy album overall
BCASL - all but AROP
ADTOE - OTBOA, LNF, TITL, Outcry, FFH, BAI (surprisingly not on BTS that I could spot)