That the "pabulum" attribute (as it was called in another review) can in my opinion not at all confirm. The songs follow a musical line which offers toughness. But this line is also routed through songs like "Love Song", "In the Eye of the Storm" and "Sacred Heart" again and again in new directions. Lyrically it is equally complex and so every song to be discovered in its entirety.
This album shows - just appeared also in contrast to the same "if black rain" - how creative SAMSAS dream in his oeuvre. And that's one of the aspects of the fascination SAMSAS dream.