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There’s something about being an Obnoxious Listener that you’re never short of few bands you’ve chosen to ignore for years and years just because everyone told you they were good. We’ve heard this story about me before, and you’ll here it again. The particular band of interest this time around, Coheed & Cambria, just put out their fourth full length late last year… and I just now gave the band an honest shot and subsequently four more sales.
Now I’ve heard of a concept album… but concept discography? All four of Coheed & Cambria’s albums fit together as one epic story. Honestly, I haven’t had the time to listen to all four albums enough to follow it just yet (I just bought all four albums about four days ago). But this sort of thing definitely adds some replay value, at least for me. It gives you a good reason to pay attention to the lyrics, which I honestly don’t typically do, and it shows some serious dedication from the band.
The first two things I said when I heard Coheed & Cambria was, “This sounds like Rush”, and then, “The singer’s picture doesn’t seem to match his voice.” Seriously, he’s all over using head-voice but he’s a big dude with a pony tale and a beard. That’s just a funny image to me. Anyways, despite the easy comparison to Rush, the members claim there was no intention of coming across that way, nor are they big fans of Rush (that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t like them and this is all heresy anyway, so who knows).
Coheed & Cambria has truly developed as a band over the years, and each album shows progress to a newer sound. They went from something that is too easily compared to emo laced with progressive rock nuggets of goodness to straight-up progressive rock. Personally, I don’t think they were ever emo, but i can see how people would come to that conclusion. I really haven’t had enough time to really hear every album, but right off the bat, they’re latest album is my favorite. It’s much more progressive than the previous albums, but give me a few more weeks to develop a well informed opinion on the others. In the mean time, if you’ve somehow missed out on Coheed & Cambria entirely as I have until this past weekend, get No World For Tomorrow (2007). It’s a good, really clean recording, and so far, I’d say it’s their best set of compositions yet.
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