yea that about sums it up. the high-water mark is soooo ridiculously high that I think we've come to have some unfair expectations, yet I can't help but sincerely *cringe* when tweezers (or ghost, mikes, etc) are cut off at the 12 min mark. I'm not asking for a bozeman or even a bomb factory, just the patience necessary to let the music blossom without premeditation.
it's a sign of how far they've come this year that this kind of thing can be upsetting instead of the expected norm of 3.0 (type I> ambient> julius/char zero/horse/caspian/boaf). the truly standout gorgeous music happens after the exhale of the ambient that cools down the in-the-box jamming of the first 8 mins or so. see any number of diseases this summer if you're looking for an example. or '98 if you want to get crazy about it.
sometimes jams have a Plan from the getgo that assaults your ears like some kind of rough beast, but more often than not the jam needs some room to develop, to mutate through an often blissful grey zone before a slight syncopation, modal or outright key change occurrs. from there trey/page will complement each other's runs starting off a single shared chord or octave. it's hard to describe but incredibly easy to feel, that locked feeling of melody with the beat pushing forward. then its the music playing the band--we need the search to get to the arrival. it seems to be a kind of future-oriented playing to cut things off after the ambient section in search of *where* to go next instead of realizing the present in the portal of an always-now.
sorry for the rant, $0.02