dredg - catch without arms

||| ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS |||

.:: If you wonder too long about where to place a band like Dredg, you’ll miss where they’re going. The band slips between the cracks of whatever rock classifications you try to stuff them into. Likewise, the Bay Area is just a mailing address; Dredg isn’t evocative of any particular place or scene.

So what do we make of a band that makes music that’s heavy, pretty, experimental and tuneful – sometimes all in the same song? You can be frustrated that Dredg rejects the idea that the goal of music is to be easily described a couple of buzz words. Or with attentive ears and an open mind, you can enjoy the hell out of ‘Catch Without Arms.’

Catch Without Arms is as unlike El Cielo as is El Cielo unlike Leitmotif. That is to say that the album has a more "uplifted" feel than any of its previous work, for better or for worse. On the one hand, no great band has ever stood still, aside from maybe AC/DC (that's a different story), but on the other hand every time a band changes its style a bit it leaves some fans behind.


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