This is the kind of bullshit that prog is for—smacking you in the face with arithmetic from the very first bars and leading you by the nose through a never-ending zigzag of shifting subdivisions, elaborately architected synth noodles, and adenoidal Geddy Lee vocals. This is not the kind of record that hides its prog-rocking ambitions behind any veneer of art-rock cool or mathcore hipness or “post”-anything respectability. This is the strong stuff, the old prog, the kind of shit that we thought punk rock decapitated back in 1977 and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal staked in the heart … Continue reading Review: Redshift – Laws of Entropy