"CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Great songs…some really great songs here. Beautiful work, Geoff. Just beautiful.
I have to admit, on first listening, three songs really stood out, and the others I just couldn't hear yet…My top three were Please Come Back, Time is Running Out, and Dark Voices. Dark Voices has one of the best lyric lines you've ever written: "I could silence up the past…". Just a great line.
Then I heard "I'll Always Be Around". Tremendous. A whole fucking movie in a song. Great song. Powerful melodic presence. Terrific arrangements…just beautiful. Beautifully made and mixed. Just the right balance of vocal to instrumental. And the way you added hits for solo instruments throughout is wonderful…cinematic, really. Also left a lot of room for each musical part to stand out…lot of air between them and space for listeners to HEAR your parts and melodies. I love it.
So, that song opened up the rest of the album for me. I could hear the other songs on their own but now within context of your changes as a writer and producer. Breaking Glass, In the Middle of the Night…very cool on their own. I've been listening to the album two or three times a day. It just gets better. Nice work, man.
I hope you're proud. You should be."