Fourth album, fourth masterpiece

The raison d'être of albums has suffered heavily through MP3 downloads. You had earlier still take the complete CD and inevitably put all tracks into the home shelf, you can just to lower price buy only the songs that are really good today - which is not exactly conducive to many current productions. Dredg had this problem in any of their previous albums, which always saw themselves as a collective work, even so should be heard and almost exclusively brought good songs. Starting with the still quite experimental "leitmotif" on the blessed with immense musical bandwidth "El Cielo" to four year old and a lot more on individual songs based with haunting melodies "Catch Without Arms" there have Californians managed with each release, the limits of explore genres and create a distinctive individual works every time.

After "Live at the Fillmore", published in 2006, a sort of live best-of album was that many of the old songs again lent new brilliance ("Yatahaze", "Triangle"), looked at the world of Dredg- Fans looking forward to the YouTube channel of the band, which at irregular intervals sound snippets of the new album "The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion" appeared at concerts individual titles have already been presented. On 29 May, it is now so far, postmen throughout Germany have packages with the latest album of Dredg under his arm and distribute them to judgment joyous fans.

Stylistically Pariah has become a mixture of El Cielo and Catch Without Arms: There are again considerably more purely instrumental pieces here, while the rest of the songs more catchy melodies build than was the case in El Cielo. Has been preserved the musical spectrum, the accordion brings to children's voices of many items with you that are not at all or only rarely found in popular prog rock productions. The thematic umbrella that could span over this album would probably be called "religion and science", and Dredg as always complex enough to ward off a complete opening up of the content depth for once-through listening. After all, by the four "stamps of Origin", short piano interludes with song, the thematic structure easier to recognize than to El Cielo.

An individual analysis of tracks of a concept album is probably sacrilege of the highest variety, nevertheless especially "Light Switch" and stand out a few titles, "quotes" that impressively demonstrate that the scheme "verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus" not the only way is to make a song. "Cartoon Showroom" beats for Dredg at unusually low volume without drums and heavy guitar reefs and shows once again how brilliant Gavin's voice really is.

Where there is light, but must also be shadows: "Saviour", which has a great intro and can shine even in the interludes, is unimaginative unfamiliar by Dredg for ratios and unmelodiösen refrain in its quality significantly limited. Even the already published as a single "information" has to face the criticism that his musical depth is significantly lower compared to the rest of the album and dares fewer experiments. After all, the version of the album contains a beautiful bridge, which unfortunately lacks the single version.

Total Pariah is but a masterstroke and continues the tradition of the band, to reinvent itself with each album a piece, consistently pursued. The instrumental bandwidth of El Cielo and the magnificent melodies of Catch Without Arms were in a wonderful way in the composition of Pariah Pate. Both in its entirety as a concept album and only when listening to individual songs, the CD will spin again and again in the turntables and show the world that even the fourth release of Dredg every single penny is worth again.