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Dream Theater exhaust their armoury on A View From The Top Of The World
A View From The Top Of The World is the 15th studio album by
veteran prog metallurgists Dream Theater
Dream Theater had just completed their own studio complex when the pandemic struck; vocalist James LaBrie was forced to brave quarantine in New York to complete his vocals.
A View… hardly sounds shoddy, mind. Despite the datedness of its content, it’s produced to a high 21st-century shine.
The band and their many gold discs might beg to differ but songs like The Alien and Sleeping Giant would benefit from a less ornate approach and more rigid adherence to their admirable riffery.
The visions conjured by the likes of Answering The Call are dully figurative – a more minimalist, abstract approach would be more cerebral. The epic title track sounds like excerpts from a straight-tovideo sci-fi movie. They’ve lots of options in their musical armoury: maybe they should consider using fewer of them.
Source: loudersound.com
