Their most accessible and commercial album yet? Maybe, but to my mind Claudio & Co haven't sold out - this is still brilliant stuff. The 'making of' DVD goes some way to explaining why NWFT seems perhaps less cohesive than the other albums, but there's a wealth of fine music here nonetheless. Its got more of an 80s rock sound and less of the 'prog' elements than before, but that's where they were at in 2007. To these ears the best band on the planet right now.

I suggest that anyone who calls this album a 'masterpiece' probably didn't listen to and marvel in the greatness of The Second Stage Turbine, or In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3.

Nothing in No World for Tomorrow rivals the awe inspiring self titled track of In Keeping Secrets, or the beautiful but diverse three tracks of the Velorium Camper, or the gritty A Favour House Atlantic and Cuts Marked in the March of Men, or the splendid 'Delirium Trigger' and 'Devil in Jersey City.'

Even the track 'The Running Free' pales compared to 'Ten Speed', 'Welcome Home', and 'Once Upon your dead body'. Only 'The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye' really stands up in sound qualiy to the first volume of Good Apollo.

I think a lot of this album can be tarnished with the brush of similarity and staleness. And while occasionally you can hear the sound which made this band so great in its own way, it wholly lacks the epic sound that catapulted it onto the stage it possesses today.

2007 has been a great year for music and has now been capped off by a fabulous record by Coheed and Cambria. This is, without doubt in my opinion, the album of the year. It is accessible, intelligent, loud, lively rock music and even if you don't want to follow the concept story line, I can guarantee that you will love this CD for years. One of the things that I like the most about Coheed is that you can pick up almost any of their CDs and enjoy an hour or so of great music, without worrying too much about the mythology. You just need to pull on your King Crimson T shirt (it's at the back of your wardrobe) like Travis does on the "Making Of" DVD that accompanies this package, and listen to something that used to be called progressive rock. Don't worry, the term is irrelevant really, you just need to listen.

As a Coheed "noob" all I can say in addition to the compliments showered on this album by the Amazon reviewers is this: If you have any interest at all in rock music, this album will leave you with your jaw on the floor. And the DVD (equally revealing) is just what you would expect from a band at the top of their game. Sorry that they lost Josh, equally glad that Michael is back. Love them to death. Well done guys, Claudio and co take a bow!

This is the fourth album in this stupendously ambitious (and brilliant) series, and though it's a long way from being the best, it's still Coheed and Cambria (despite the slightly altered line-up) and still a clear mile above almost everything else going. I love that each of these albums has its own unique and distinctive sound, despite the fact that each is a chapter in the same story. That said, the creative well is showing early signs that it may at last be running dry. The album does have an occasional tendency to fall into familiar patterns at times, and many of the tracks are sadly quite forgettable - you won't find another Time Consumer, or the wall-to-wall perfection of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3, or even the uncomfortable angst and complex structure of the most recent album. What you will find instead are a handful of excellent, hummable tracks - highlights include Feathers, Mother Superior and of course The Running Free (which was actually written for the new Transformers movie, though sadly it didn't make the cut). The high points of this album are definitely up there with the past glories, and definitely offer something new and distinctive - it's just that everything else is a little bland and over-familiar at this point. That's not to say it's bad by any stretch - it's Coheed and Cambria after all and this band doesn't really do `bad'. It's just that each of their albums inevitably has to be measured against the impossibly high standards of the previous ones, and this one is not quite up there.

It would be easy to go into raptures about just how utterly superb and brilliant this album is, so I will keep it brief. No World For Tomorrow is, despite some strong competition, the best album of 2007. There is no chance of anyone now bettering it this year. It would be the best album of most years! This is also, arguably, Coheed's best album. What I think is particularly striking is that it doesn't grab you on first listen as say Good Apollo did. However, after a few listens you just keep being washed over by oceans of new nuances and subtleties. Claudio has totally outdone himself in one vital regard. Unlike their previous material this album is pitched exactly right. It doesn't have as many immensely long, widdly self-indulgent bits, and best of all the songs fit together perfectly to form the best run of songs I can remember (perhaps since Operation:Mindcrime!). The music is like a jigsaw perfectly slotted home. Indvidually the songs are not all great, but as a unit they make a for an utterly compelling and exciting listen. This is not a collection of separate musical pieces like virtually all albums but a story and progression in the best possible sense of the words. Awesome and brilliant!