This is awesome news. As much as I liked Tales Don't Tell Themselves, I'd love to hear new music from them.
It'll be interesting to see whether they go further in the direction of TDTT (which I'd probably say is their best release tied with Casually Dressed), back to their roots, or do something completely different.
I hope they bring back some of their screaming. Don't get me wrong, their songs are just as awesome without it, but some of their songs with screaming have such an incredible energy about them. I'd love to hear that again.
I welcome anything this band releases. 2008 just got a hell of a lot better for me! Edit// From their forums, one response: fantastic news! any sort of clues to the writing style/direction to the ep? Ryan (drummer) said: "Unrestrained" seems to be a word popping up a lot..make of that what you will It's definitely already a lot different to Tales.." So hmm.. this makes me really curious.
Tales for me was almost pure guitar pop, which isnt a bad thing, i mean i really liked it! but the reason i fell in love with FFAF was because of their 'Between Order and Model' and 'Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation' releases. when you compare to the newer releases its almost a million miles away from what they used to be. im not saying its a bad thing, but for me this is a very positive statement Ryan has made and im looking forward to it like you wouldnt believe!
Yet another blog. Heavier than Tales. Aggressive vocals. Hell yes. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=1368156&blogID=353741137