 While the album was moderately progressive-sounding, tracks such as "Hollow Years" and "You Not Me" prompted some to believe it was the dawn of a new, mainstream-sounding Dream Theater.Overall, the album was both a critical and commercial disappointment.Although Portnoy did not speak out publicly at the time, he later revealed in the 2004 DVD commentary for "5 Years in a Livetime", that he had been so discouraged during this period that he had considered disbanding Dream Theater altogether.