Haven't heard all of the songs yet but with Barcelona it's really missing a certain percussiveness now. They didn't translate the 'oomph' of some of the louder parts very well.

I definitely love the actual sound of real instruments, I'll take that over shitty synths any day - but the arranger didn't really do their homework on this one. I'm just thinking how much better this would've sounded with balls-to-the-wall orchestral percussion. I dunno, maybe they were under pressure to keep it 'traditional' because of all of the orchestra types hanging around, but I reckon they ought to have bucked a few trends and just gone for it.