First song: “This is rad. I’m gonna love this.” Second song: “Ok, not as good as the first, but I’m still into it.” Third song: “This is a nice interlude-y kinda song… but it’s 9 minutes long??” Fourth song: “Ok now we’re talking, I’m into this… wait, it’s still going?” Fifth song: “Oh so this is what we’re gonna do again? A meandering 7 minutes followed by an unnecessarily long outro of… not really anything?” Sixth song: “Ok, I’m back. This is awesome.” Listen, I’m a prog fan, so I’m not afraid of long songs. But if you’re gonna write a 9 minute song, at least switch it up a little bit. Yet, all that aside… I still loved it. If it was just a tiny bit less self indulgent, this would have been an instant favorite.