Initially, I was thinking, like— "wow, this is a huge shift for them", but I think the main change, aside from forty years of aging and working on music, is just that they're being a lot more direct about themes they (at least ever since they became an actual band) tended to be way more indirect about. Intense emotions and discussing fairly non-spicy politics-adjacent things in a ~show don't tell~ framing has been a thing with them for forever, I think, so??