The album is amazing, of course. I'm currently wearing my t-shirt, drooling over the album booklet, and weeping over the loss of my poster, which was destroyed en route to my place.
So are the changes in the songs sounds drastically different?
Some of them. They sound much more professionally mixed... Forever If Ever was kind of raw, I thought, and a lot of the lower sounds all just blended together. Everything is extraordinarily crisp on the new record
are the songs sound better than the songs in Forever If Ever?
You have a Jon avi too! I've never seen that picture before!
Yes, a lot of them sound much better than Forever If Ever. They're much crisper. I don't know how to describe it, exactly, but you can hear every note and every instrument in this mix, whereas on Forever If Ever, some of the background music all blended together.
My favorite new song would be "Falling" but the part where he sings "You don't know how she does it / all you know is you freaking love it!" is so cheesy... I grimace every time. I know he's a good Christian and all... but "****ing" would sound so much better than "freaking"
Download is pretty ambiguous anyway, but I always like to buy from artists that aren't big. Did that with Vows yesterday.