Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind (June 24, 2022) Album • Page 38

God this is so hype haha, thanks for sharing!

 

As a 13 year old who bought IKS and a 31 year old now I’m not sure I’ve related to a meme more.

 

I think the title track is already contending for my favourite Coheed song ever.

Also is that a Gutter callback at 3:15?

 

I thought the same thing

 

Rise Naianasha is my current favorite. Album is still perfect

 

I’m seeing a lot of positivity around this, I’m gonna need to check it out this week.

 

I’ve said so much about josh but gawsh damn dude Claudio’s vocals are beyond what anyone his age should be able to pull off, and the fact he’s written so much music and still has this much creativity in his melodies and lyrics is just stunning to say the least. And I know earlier some pointed out they aren’t necessarily straight up “prog” just some songs here and there, it’s hard to deny Claudio and Travis write their guitar lines from a very prog rock perspective while fitting them into pop song structures, which is genius to me and is pulled off brilliantly here. I’d call it accessible prog lol. You’re not getting like long meandering wankery like on Mara Volta records (I love them btw) or tool (also a fan) but the guitars shred and twist and turn around each other and the riffs are far from straight forward and go in directions that take you off guard. It’s brilliantly pulled off without going into self indulgent territory, something I think has always separated them from typical prog bands. Much like circa or dgd (I know I know but it makes sense to compare) they came up adjacent to emo and pop punk and took those song structures and added prog flare to them and throughout the years that’s evolved to what we have now, which there’s nothing to call it other than the coheed sound.

 

After my third listen I’m absolutely in love with this. Bad Man and Ladders of Supremacy are my go to currently.

 

Snippet from Liars Club…Blood Red Summer with perspective.

Your mind outta service
Hard to find the words worth saying
What we do to deserve this
Everything seems broken when you look at it that way

This album is incredible.

 

This brings up a lot of things for me. I think they occupy a space in the intersection of pop (in the sense of catchy vocals) and prog instrumentation that I honestly wish more bands did, and if they’re out there, I want people to recommend them to me, haha. Mastodon are one that are totally different but I think they pull off the same type of thing. Closure in Moscow did it really well on First Temple too, which makes me think that progressive post-hardcore is where more of the melody with prog resides.

I honestly had this same line of thinking in my head while listening to some TMV stuff earlier this week and absolutely loving them when their songs are firing on all cylinders, but bored to death during the long ambient passages. I then had the same thing happen while listening to the new Porcupine Tree and really liking certain sections but finding it hard to latch on to much in the form of melody in the vocals.

 

A Disappearing Act rules so fucking hard “now watch time disappear” has been stuck in my head all day. @sophos34 is right, it’s wild that he can still come up with such catchy and unique melodies.

 

This is my first listen with my good headphones and there are so many cool little parts I couldn’t hear through the mix at first. I love this record

 

Whereabouts could I find this track by track? Tried to search for it. Thanks

 

gotchu

Claudio’s track-by-track descriptions from Allmusic.

 

Absolutely check out Thank You Scientist!

 

i have kind of checked out on coheed the last few albums but checked this out based on jason's praise and i'm loving it!

 

Hopefully the roast date changed then...

Where my coffee snob purists at?

 

lol so Claudio was high during "Bad Man"

 

Yeah that tidbit in the track by track was pretty funny. It's also funny that he 100% admits he's trying to sound like Michael Jackson, and everyone was saying he's trying to sound like The Weeknd... which I think says more about The Weeknd than Coheed, haha.

 

Even though Coheed are my all time fav band I haven't really expressed my thoughts on this album in here yet, been trying to gauge my feelings for it while also being preoccupied with the AOF and Soccer Mommy records. But I through this on again otw to work this morning and have finally reached the conclusion: goddamn they did it again.

On my first listen I think this was the least I had been feeling a new Coheed record since YOTBR, the singles on this are so fuckin catchy and gangbusters and the deeper cuts felt a little at odds hook wiser with how slick the production is (except A Disappearing Act, that song was the fuckin jam right out the gate). On repeated listens the songs are peeling themselves back way more, there's a lot going on here; like others have said it's insanely cool how Claudio and the guys are continually finding new ground to explore even while making songs that quintessentially sound like them. Like the title track is so sick and explorative, probably their single proggiest song in like 15 years, but there's this theatrical element to it that doesn't really align with anything they've done before. And also like others have said: Josh is the king of this record, he continues to get better and better.

I will say... I am not totally sold on Bad Man still. Claudio has always kept his propensity for cheesiness very tasteful overall but that one might be a little too much for me lol. I say this now but catch me singing every word if they play it at future shows, probably

 

Still searching for that sick ass riff like in Welcome Home, NWFT, Toys, etc. I haven't given this a full listen through in one sitting tho

 

Forever confused why people love Toys so much.

 

because it rocks thanks

 

Oh that’s explains it