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Interscope Records I must say... I'm a sucker for a concept album. A sucker for a good concept album that is. Dredg's El Cielo is one of the best examples of a concept album in a long time! Dare I say that this may be the greatest concept album to come out in the past 25 years since Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon spent 14 years on the top 200 charts? Just when I thought that bands who actually had a deeper understanding of what they were actually singing about were gone; there's Dredg. El Cielo is an amazing culmination of several different ideas including sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, and change. There are many references to this throughout the album, but one might not realize it at first listen, or even 100th listen. The ideas expressed on El Cielo are so deep and thought provoking, I'm still learning things from it and it's been in my CD player for months and months. It's the type of album where you figure out bits and pieces of it when you aren't even listening to it or thinking about it at all. You'll be falling asleep at night, at work, or driving down the road and, from out of nowhere, you'll be hit with an "a-ha" and another piece of the album will be revealed and make sense to you. From "Same Ol' Road," to "Scissor Lock," to "Whoa is Me," this album never gets boring. The songs on this album carry a communal spirit that drives home the feeling, the mission, and the identity of this album. Oh, and did I forget to mention, these guys are amazing to see live! Check them out if you ever get the chance. I could watch Dino C., the drummer, play drums all day. Listen to it, Love it. XROXX RATING: XXXXX (5 X's out of a possible 5 X's) Love/Hate/Disagree With This Review? Write Your Own or Comment on the Album! -> CLICK HERE!!! Joel Koszyczarek
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