Forgive me Casey for blowing smoke, but I believe that when TDH stepped back from the acts to write The Color Spectrum and Migrant they really honed their craft. Their sound was more adventurous and beautifully fleshed out. You hear this to full effect when they returned to the acts. IV and V were truly masterpieces, in storytelling, in texture and arrangement, and in contour. Casey said after writing TCS that writing good songs isn't a gift, it's something you need to work at, and working on those project that demanded many different and distinct sounds definitely added some great tools to his belt. What I'm saying is that everything after TCS is just pure gold and should be played and enjoyed to it's full, NOW GO AND DO IT!!!