Thanks, man. I appreciate that. I sense that some on the forum have been annoyed by my comments on their mixes--well, they invited them! I try not to be too rigidly idiosyncratic in my feedback. I do get genre. If I'm listening to a metal mix, I'm not going to suggest making it sound like Lawrence Welk. But I might ask, "don't you want a leeeeetle bit more separation in those guitars....?" I've gone through so many phases in my musical journey, from the Country that my parents listened to when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, the hard rock, punk, and New Wave of the late 70s and 80s, a long spell listening almost exclusively to Electronica and World Music in the 90s (I sat out the thrash and grunge era in disinterest), alt Country in the early 2000s (think Old 97s), rediscovering Motown and Funk in the last ten or fifteen years, even a year or two in-between listening to almost no music at all. The cool thing about getting a bit older is that we stop defining our personal identity in terms of the musical genres and cliques that we swear allegiance to, and by extension the styles of music that we are obliged to hate, or pretend to. It broadens everything. At this point, I just want to write songs and exercise my creativity while it lasts. Whatever comes out is what comes out. If you keep listening to the songs Nick, Dave and I have in the queue, you might be surprised at my lack of concern over genre in the songs I am writing. Though I think those aesthetic values I mentioned will be present in all of them.