Think I had it pre-release, from Redefining Darkness, so I definitely wasn’t influenced by the hype train. I loved the old WW1 samples, the songs really did it for me, I thought the production was excellent and that it worked really well as an overall package... plus the timing of the release was cool - 11th hour on the 11th day on the 11th month/ the hundredth anniversary of the end of the war. These things are of course entirely subjective, and the world would be a dull place if we all liked all of the same things, but I thought it was a pretty special album anyway.