The album starts off at a quite heavy and frenetic pace and at first that's what you get from listening to it. After more play-throughs however all the wonderful subtle melodies and arrangements show themselves and the album grows as you keep listening to it...
I agree and I think the reason for it is that for the first time ever, the music on this album was written by just two of the band members. For this album Steve Moore, our guitarist, and Kevin McNulty, our bass player, wrote all the music between them. Which has given the album a much more concentrated sound structure and believe me when I say that when the guys were sending over the tracks for me to hear, I was just blown away with what they were coming up with. That intensity you mentioned and how they'd really upped their game was just wonderful to hear. I knew then that I would have to up my game with the lyrics to match what they'd done and so their music I think, brought the best out of me as well.