For me, El Cielo` and, Catch Without Arms' in the top 10 of the island plates and I highly recommend these guys for years mantra moderate further. Because of all the attributes, as they are always referred to by fans: playful, emotional, layers, unexpected, awesome, epic depth. The new album is here in a slightly different direction. Guitarist Mark Engles has described it in an interview in such a way, Chuckles And Mr. Squeezy` is a departure board. However, it is not a complete departure from what actually constitutes Dredg, neither from the strong storytelling, even of the driving drums and percussions an obviously crazy drummer, or of the outstanding guitar work, both Lead Guitare and also on bass. Rather, all the ingredients are still present, are only reduced and composed differently. Combined with the mechanical and synthetic excellence of producer Dan the Automator (if so is in the address book?). Here something else comes out, a development for simplicity that perhaps andeutetet on the last two albums, or even, depending on with which Fanohr you can hear it, something completely new that you have to approach only to it in detail capture.
Among the songs: ANOTHER TRIBE is the new direction before, pop, catchy and syntheziserlastig. Somewhere I read that a-ha sequencers, but of course that is a gross exaggeration. The vocals of Gavin Hayes show as always clear that Dredg just does not sound like any other band. The lyrics make the famous image of the band Tribal neuaufleben but lyrically reduced as in some songs from the back catalog. DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT follows these synthetic track, but a bit harder and marching. UPON RETURNING it changes then, with a simple but driving Rockriff that a little oldschool hard rock sounds. Fascinating song that would have on, catch without Arms` fit. THE TENT is again a change of direction, a slow funk song with Portishead bonds, which clearly the influence of Dan the Automator (what a name by the way, I can not stress enough write it) shows. The acoustic KALATHAT in which the story of a high-tech professionals is told, the vanity and success is about the love of his family, is beautiful and one of the highlights of the album. In general, the texts, they are this time more accessible, simple, but still have enough substance, so as not to get bored and losing depth. Other highlights include THE ornament, as a fragment known for a long time, here in a full version. About a bombastic beat and a fantastic bass, the song develops minute by minute. The crisscrossed by North African rhythms BEFORE IT BEGAN. And of course THE THOUGHT OF LOSING YOU, the first single, which was to rob the fans some anxiety, great simple song in the tradition of, Information`.
After the first Hördurchgängen I was afraid of losing a favorite band, gradually understand this statement with the Abkehrplatte something better. The complexity of this time reduced, recomposed the individual puzzle pieces, Dan the Automator (Yiihaaa) adds to that a whole new component: The producer or the new musical collaboration, Dredg has sometimes taken a new direction again. The skin is not at all the songs down, for example. THE SUN GOES DOWN, but generally the Detailverliebheit of producers is noteworthy above all because it manages to bring the fantastic voice of Hayes in a perfect context. Dredg would certainly have a, El Cielo can produce 2` and I'm sure it would have been excellent. But unfortunately, we as fans can not always choose what we deliver estimated bands. Often enough, the arrest argument is drawn on the contrary, that there is no development. That is definitely not the case at Dredg. , Chuckles And Mr. Squeezy` is worth discovering.
