(11-30-2015, 08:49 AM)SkyDiver Wrote: I have to say that I was definitely disappointed when I first heard that album. It is hard to come up with completely new stuff that sounds as great as your old stuff while trying to adhere to the "sound" that everyone expects of you.
The album did grow on me after the second and third times through it. I think it is better than many other bands can do, but I agree with the overall direction of the commentators here.
Like everyone I eagerly anticipated Letters. At the same time another eagerly awaited album by another favorite of mine was coming out. Now I am a huge TSO fan but the album by my other favorite blew me away and I couldn't stop playing it. Letters I played two or three times and put it on the shelf. The album has not grown on me.