If it’s anything like the last one it will be worth the wait

“El Cielo” is their unquestioned masterpiece, I met Gavin Hayes and told him that it was the “Dark Side Of The Moon” of our generation. To say he was pleased would be an gross understatement. I thought “Catch Without Arms” while great, was focused on trying to break the band into the mainstream, the song itself laments the fact that bands with less, for lack of a better term, artistic integrity, enjoy the perks of rock-stardom, while Dredg’s “simple needs are scarce”. So while I don’t necessarily blame them for trying cash in, “Catch Without Arms” was kind of Dredg-lite, as Patrick Bateman would say “seems to be more commercial, and therefore more satisfying in a narrower way”. Don’t get me wrong, I “Catch Without Arms”, but “The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion” was a return to form for me. I love the recurring themes, I guess it’s a matter of taste, I just like something a little meatier. You really can’t go wrong with Dredg though, I wish they were bigger, I don’t want them to go a more commercial route, they just need to wait for the rest of the world to catch up.

@robichaud apples and planets, ha, funny stuff, I think “El Cielo” is that good, in my opinion. Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all-time, and “Dark Side of The Moon” is my favorite album ever, along with “Kid-A” and I get the same thrill out “El Cielo”. Those are the three albums I always turn to for the wind-down of a particularly, “interesting” night. Like you said, just because people don’t know it, doesn’t mean it’s not great. I’ll never understand why certain bands don’t get the push they deserve from their record companies, but Dredg is the one of the most talented, interesting, genre-defying bands to come out of the 2000′s, and the only reason I heard of them is through theprp.com. You and I have been on the same side on every discussion we’ve both been a part of on theprp and I didn’t expect you to go the they’re not famous so they can’t possibly be THAT good route. The reason Pink Floyd was and is as huge as they are is because 1. They’re insanely great 2. A suit agreed and put them on blast, Dredg has only one of those qualities.

@robichaud, fair enough, no matter how great we think “El Cielo” is, it will never reach “Dark Side” proportions, the album’s been out close to a decade already, and I’m not sure it’s even at gold status, it will be one of those albums, that I’ll bring up in ten years and a handful of people will be like “Yeah dude, that album was awesome”. Dredg get to play music and paint for a living so I don’t feel THAT bad for them, but they deserve to be in the argument for one of the best bands of the 2000′s, and deserve to be semi-wealthy, right?