Bad or mixed reviews be damned. I have never been a huge fan of this band but this album - along with its predecessor 'Before These Crowded Streets' has made me a convert. There is true beauty to be had in several of these songs, most notably in "The Space Between". Dave's voice is an all-over-the-place growl that plaintively manages to attain real, raw emotion that leaves this listener anyway seriously moved.Other tracks of note include "I Did It", "Dreams of Our Fathers", "Where You Are", and "Mother Father".An album to be listened to again and again. (It gets better in repetition.)