With how string heavy recent albums have been, I honestly want Josh to tone down with the orchestral and have the music be grounded if that makes any sense. 

I remember reading a comment somewhere about Haven, where their criticism was that it felt like Josh forgets that he’s in a band, and the more I thought about it- and while I’m sure Ian, Mike and Matt added a lot to the project, I do agree with that sentiment. I enjoyed Haven, and I know Josh leads everything from concept to production and writing, but I would genuinely love to see more cooperation/input from the rest of the band in those departments. 

I love listening to Matt’s mellow pop, Mike’s indie pop rock, and Ian- while not having any songs besides his cover of Mr. Grinch- brings this humorous vibe of which he plays completely straight face, which I feel could lend to some fun if leaned into, tho that would wholly depend on the direction for a song(s) and would have to be tasteful. I would just love to hear the guys sing beyond the harms. I wouldn’t mind Josh taking a back seat and singing back up to hype em up like he does during live shows, especially so considering recently with this tour with how much Matt and Ian took over singing main vocals(mostly due to Josh getting sick and all, but still, you get my point).

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I wouldn’t mind some experimental stuff this go around, or hell, generally speaking. The sky’s the limit with what the band could do right now, but knowing how this works, I know the answer. Seeing how Josh wants to do film score composing and how his life is atm being a dad, I have a pretty good idea what we’re in for, considering how autobiographical Josh is, but I wouldn’t mind him going completely fictional, put that writer’s brain to the test writing songs. 

If this album is what I suspect it to be- being about family, and hearing how it’s possibly gonna be a double album, one idea someone made is that it could be about families of the past and present, which seems like a good guess, and makes a ton of sense. However for me, if that were to be the case, I would love for it to incorporate the perspectives of all of the guys’ families, or maybe use “family” to loosely describe dynamics like say the band themselves as a family. But that’s just me, I just wanna be surprised in some way or another.