I pre-ordered this package before I headed off to the sun in Algarve for two weeks... and knowing it would be waiting on my return to London helped me deal with heading north again. I got back this evening, and have just listened to it through.
It's a different, more polished sound than the first album. There's almost a Stones-like quality in some of the riffs. I think I'm going to enjoy this!
Second albums are often 'difficult'. But these guys are such consummate musicians that their experience and, well, sheer brilliance, has won the day. I'll never stop enjoying the rawness and sheer exuberance of the first album, but this is another step up for some people for whom I had huge respect already.
Pure class.
And the package is brilliant. I've never looked at a 3D image before (my eyesight is poor, and it's difficult to fit the 3D specs over my existing ones). Great fun. I shall read the mag over the coming days.