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"Blank - El Cielo"

Just ordered this Dredg album, for pretty cheap off Amazon.

I wait with much anticipation.

I've got several CDs like that. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence by Glassjaw - one of the tracks pauses and then changes style very quickly. Sounds like a whole new song. Yeah, got from US cos it twas cheap!

Ah, didn't realise you were getting it from the US. It has more a track mergence (if that's a word) than El Cielo - track 2 is basically the end of track 1. You probably won't even notice it's moved into track 2. They're odd like that.

Not yet - might be there today.

All the way for Yankee Land, so it has taken a while. But dirt cheap again.

I think the last track and the one next door but one to that are two of the best on there.

I'm still amazed that you both like them so much, to be honest. I wasn't expecting such a warm reception for the band. But it's great that you do like them. Have you got Leitmotif yet, Cyclone?

Same Ol' Road rocks.

The end of the album is even better in a way. The final 3 tracks are superb, and the final 'brushstroke' track and Of The Room are cool.

I know what you mean about listening to bands not many other people have heard of. Cursive, Chavez, Sunny Day, Elliot and now Dredg. Me special. Not.

All thankee to Blankee.

eyyyyyyy.

Woo!
This is some seriously good sheet.
Loving it.

The little booklet does help understand the lyrics and stuff, but now I think it's better to forget the album's theme and just enjoy the music.

Favorite track = Sanzen. Then, of course, Same Ol' Road.
I haven't listened to the back end of the album too much, so that may change.

Now I feel special, because no-one knows who I'm listening to. Which is nice.

It's quite hard to explain how the music makes you feel - kind of excited and hyper one minute, and very chilled the next.
Brilliant.

Yummy.

Sorry But It's over and It Only Took A Day (the two 'hardest' tracks) aren't as good as Same Ol' Road, Whoa Me or The Canyone Behind Her.

All of them have (well, most) have bits that are, er, heavier than others.

It came this morning, which is shockingly quick.
HMV may have a few more orders from me yet.

Anywho, I haven't had much time to listen to it yet - just flicked through the tracks, as you do. I'll put it on my mp3 tonight, and treat my ears to and from college.

Is Leitimof a bit harder? I read somewhere it was, so I may get it - on my brief trip through El Cielo the harder tracks appeal s to me a bit more.

Full thoughts tomorrow.

Oh, and even though the normal CD with the bed in the middle was pictured on the website, I got the spiffy cloud one with the little booklet inside.
*Grin*

I've just read that post back, and it sounds like I have schizophrenia. Sorry about that.

Cyclone wrote:
> Just ordered Leitimof,

Brilliant album, I probably prefer it to El Cielo. Again, a bit of a themed album, although not as heavily (with El Cielo the lucid dream theme affects the music, but with Leitmotif it's only really the lyrics). The theme for the first album is a man that is told in a dream that he has a moral disease, whatever that is, and has to go on a journey in order to cure himself. If you read the booklet that comes with it, the lyrics all start to make sense. And it's pronounced lite-moe-teef if anyone's interested.

Hopefully there'll be news of the next album along soon.