Dredg’s new album “The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion” is a mouthful to tell your friends about, and an earful to listen to. The band seem to be focusing considerably less on being experimental and shunning original song structure just for the sake of it, and the result is a varied and excellent album that I’d recommend to all my friends.
The album starts off with a catchy melody sung by Vocalist Gavin Hayes, and a group of school girls, before launching into a punchy guitar riffs. The album weaves catchy songs such as “Pariah”, “Information”, and “Savior” with shorter instrumental interludes like “Drunk~Slide” and “R.U.O.K”, as well as the “Stamp of origin” tracks, that sound like they were written as parts to another song, and then broken up and scattered through the album.
The album never lost my interest, and the standout track for me is the instrumental “Long days and vague clues” with its violin and carnival-esque feel.
The album is inspired by an essay by Salman Rushdie, called “Imagine There’s No Heaven: A Letter to the 6 Billionth Citizen”, and because of this has a lot of fairly anti-religious lyrics, which isn’t a problem for me, but may be off-putting for some.
“delusions, aren’t meant to justify the things you do”
