Key Entity Extraction I: Domino The Destitute

Key Entity Extraction I: Domino The Destitute. 

They say that springtime is the starting of a new page. Things are new, winter is over, and it's time for the fun of summer to begin. To me, the new page begins in autumn. It's fantastic. I think it has a lot to do with autumn being the beginning of the school year, which to me defines a brand new start. When I was a Junior in college, I discovered Coheed just before they released their bombshell Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Vol 1: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness. It was excellent. All of my friends spun this album non-stop all through the fall and well into the winter months. I think the rotating waned when Tool's 10,000 Days came out, more as something new, as we had to have heard the album hundreds if not thousands of times. To me this album has always been a time machine. Throw that album on with a slight nip in the air and I can feel the exact same way that I did during that year. Many albums have this effect for me. I guess that's why I got so excited when C&C decided to drop their latest single just at the beginning of fall. I gave it a brief listening a few weeks ago and didn't think much of it. To me it sounded like an In Keeping Secrets copy and nothing much more. Recently I had to travel for work and had the opportunity to be in a car for about 11 hours. I threw the single on my iPhone and decided to give it another go. That's when I fell in love. This song is dope. 

This song does a great job of throwing all kinds of callbacks while still being a totally new thing. I've never been one to claim that I understand what Claudio's story is about. Personally, it seems a lot more like he writes songs about whatever he wants and then tries to work it into the "mythos". That doesn't detract from the fact that this song is great. With Josh Eppard back in the fold, I expected C&C to return to their style of "groove" playing, but this song doesn't do it in the traditional Coheed fashion. During the verses, the groove is there in a powerful way, but it comes in in such an off way that you never really feel it as a groove. It's just a powerful pulsing backbone. Then you have the anthemic chorus that this band has mastered since album 1. The "this is a war" line is heavily reminiscent of the Willing Well series of the bands third release. They even manage to work in the "I'd do anything for you" line that permeates nearly every album of their catalog. I love it. 

This song is not something that could have been written by the band in 2003, or even 2007. This song has a maturity that I feel a band only has when they have had a decade of music in the pocket. It's the same adventurous songwriting with a tightness that you get when you've been making music as long as they have. I cannot wait for this album to drop in a month and get to have yet another autumn time machine with Coheed and Cambria.