DEADWING

what confuses me is whether prog fans like prog music or just the bands that play the 'prog template' produced by bands like genesis, floyd, king crimson. In my humble opinion progressive music for me is one which explores new ideas and keeps challenging itself, and i think deadwing suceeds on both levels it takes the ideas presented on In absentia to another level. A lotta prog fans are gonna be put off by the fact that the album seems uncomplicated without any obvious math rock excursions, nor any real spacy soundscapes but i would ask all these people to actually look beneath the crunchy riffs of the heavier songs like deadwing and shallow to find the layers of electronic soundscapes that these riffs leverage upon, the melodies of the quieter songs are so beautiful that they actually hurt especially lazerus which has to be one of the most delicate compositions ive heard form the band. the guitar leads are extremely different in feel than the ones on previous albums. The biggest progression according to me is the lyrics the real genius of deadwing are the lyrics read em up and the pieces will fall into their places. DEADWING IS A MASTERPIECE.

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