I'm here, SheismySin. Weird that I checked this forum just a week ago and no one had posted.
I'm going to change the name of the topic because the single is now out. I posted it on all the other OSA sites but forgot to post it here, as it was 3 a.m. by the time it got uploaded to YouTube!
We are also debuting the entire single on Nightwish Radio in just a few minutes, so feel free to tune in!
http://www.nwradio.caster.fm/
Here are the lyrics to "Élan":
I am trying to link the video but for some reason it won't show. Let's see if this works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPonioDYnoY
OK, so it doesn't show. Well, click on the link to watch, I guess.
Now that I have heard the songs, I have to say that the single is in the same vein as "Nemo" and "Amaranth" as far as the "standard Nightwish single" goes. Also sounds a lot like "Last of the Wilds". I like it, but hopefully this is the weakest track on the album.
"Sagan", I really like. To me, it's like how "The Escapist" might have sounded if it had been on Oceanborn. I like that Tuomas is using his keys again and that both songs appear to have cut back on the use of orchestra quite a bit. Don't get me wrong, I love the orchestra, but it got a little too much on Imaginaerum and oftentimes felt like more of a "London Symphony feat. Nightwish" sort of thing than the other way around.
Floor sounds great, but she has an operatic voice and I am really hoping that Tuomas has utilized that, because as he even said when I interviewed him, "the table is set" and that Floor can sing pretty much anything he wants her to. So I hope he takes advantage of the many different things her voice can do. I look forward to hearing the rest of the album. March 31st can't get here fast enough!