I just listened to both songs! Only listening to them once untill I get the whole deal so granted I dont have the best view of these songs cause you really do need to listen to them more times to fully delve in. But on first listen i liked them a lot but they definelty have a different Opeth sound, its nice. I dont know if anyone agrees but they sound more prog to me. they are not necessarily more complicated than past opeth songs but just the sound somehow and feeling is more prog than metal. Really interesting that both songs had a lot of pauses, stop completely and goes metal then stops and gets soft. Really amazing songs and cant wait to hear them again. I do however wish that there is some brutally hard parts on this album because neither of these songs had really insane heavy parts IMO.
These songs also had a romantic vibe imo. Not like kiss and cudle with your girlfriend romantic but more like classical romantic period feeling. Anyone agree with my views?