Stefan, seems you know your work well. I basically agree with your rating of Northwind completely. 9/10, and my favorite songs are also Catch the Shadows, Tower of the Queen, and Long gone By, except I would include Northwind in that list, too. I'm guessing you also liked it, or someone in Falconer did, seeing you named the album after it!
I also liked Home of the Knave a good deal. Probably my favorite CD ever, tied with *cough, cough* Inhuman Rampage by Dragonforce (oops, did I say that out loud?). Yes, I'm a DF fan, too, but Northwind is no less amazing by it. If every album was like Northwind, I would do nothing in life but listen to music. Only songs I didn't really like were Spirit of the Hawk (which, as you eloquently put it, Stefan, is fast merely for the sake of being fast), and Black Tarn, which was just kind of...eh. Not just because it's instrumental, just didn't think it had a great melody, but still an awesome CD! Go Falconer!
