
Obvious singles like "I Don't Know," "Saviour," and "Pariah" may be "modern rock" radio-ready, but they're "mathy" enough for the tech-loving music geeks, highbrow enough for the progressive rock elitists, and emotional enough for bike riding indie rockers. At 18 tracks, it can be a lot to swallow, but keep in mind that many of these are transitional pieces and rarely overstay their welcome. I've literally been checking Drew's personal site and the dredg store almost everyday for months since he mentioned this repressing.

It's criminally unknown but represents a stunningly original sound of prog rock.

Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion represents the best of both worlds, employing top-notch musicianship, meticulous production, and memorable melodies atop an ambitious narrative culled from (in part) a Salman Rushdie essay called "Imagine There's No Heaven: A Letter to the 6 Billionth Citizen." While weeding through the wreckage of science, sociology, and religion for the quivering individual may seem like heavily guarded Radiohead territory, Dredg pulls it off with the human heart still intact. Re-released by Interscope on the unfortunate day of September 11, 2001, dredg's Leitmotif is a timeless album which ironically may have suffered in recognition due to the time it was released. dredgvault The VAULT logo was designed by brush.house.

In just four albums, California's Dredg have run the gamut from atonal, angular alternative metal outfit to epic, unpredictable progressive rockers with one foot in "loud/quiet/loud" world of emo and the other in genre-defying abyss of art rock. VAULT on sale el cielo map Configuring the sequence of the album we mapped out our ideas.
