As usual, excellent work Chris. I agree that Devotion to a Dream has a familiar feel to it -- I will figure out what that is, mark my words. If its intention is to give a déjà vu feel to the listener in a dreamlike fashion, then mission accomplished! I have to be an ass and pick a single nit: the whammy in Trey's first jam of Fuego bothers me. Not just the whammy itself, but the fact that it's now immortalized in a recording means that whammy jamming in Fuego, at least in the short term, becomes the de facto default for the tune -- and Fuego is going to be a second set opening jam vehicle by Fall. Generally speaking, Trey's whammy use gets to me when it becomes his "crutch" and not "just another weapon in the arsenal", and by recording a whammy jam, the whole thing becomes less of a "there were some shows where Trey wouldn't stop dicking around with his whammy pedal" thing and more "official" to me -- even though the jam in question isn't particularly harsh on the ears. Anyway, I don't want to turn this into another whammy circle jerk because the circle jerk is worse than the whammy itself at this point. Overall, I couldn't be much more pleased with the album. Some of that has less to do with the songs themselves than that the album exists in the first place -- they're working on new things together, and only good can come from that.