We seem to be in the minority who prefer the Dunes album to Solus? I feel like both sophomore efforts were a step forward from the debuts (and the personnel seems to be overlapping more than ever) -- but somehow while the expanded pallet makes Dunes sound even better, I prefered the more "focused & sparse" sound of the first Solus album (expanding the pallet in this case diffuses what made the original so unique.) IMHO of course (hi Ian!)