If I haven't told you to listen to IFD yet, I'm sorry. I've done you a disservice. This is a great band that I believe most everyone can get into. They don't take themselves too seriously, yet they have such a strong sense of musicianship with their live use of various video game controllers to create an array of pretty noises for your ears. So kick back and enjoy my spotlight on I Fight Dragon's first full length, debut album KABOOM!
First of all, go to spotify right now and listen to this album. Like now.
Okay, now that the tunes be bumping, you understand the complexity of how awesome this stuff is. When it first starts playing, you notice the thematic awesomeness of the fanfare. What a way to kick off an album. This accompanied with the interlude halfway through the album, the presence of traditional music values is present and this idea is a welcome change to non-progressive* music that populates the market as of late.
This wouldn't be a spotlight if I didn't highlight my favorite track. Now, I've only listened to the album two times through since it came out yesterday, (can you say no life?) but my favorite song is apparent. It came out as a single first and I understand why. "The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth" is still my favorite song off the album and definitely a solid second favorite song by them. ("Just Decide" is still my favorite) First of all, they took a lyric from the RUSH song "2112" that reads, "and the meek shall inherit the earth," so that's awesome, but they continue to retell my life. The whole song is about how it may suck now being a geek now, but in the future it will get better. So I love it.
Hopefully this spotlight made you want to listen to these guys more and I'll have more updates like this when my favorite artists start putting out more albums.
*The definition of progressive is the idea of not following the traditional layout of a song (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus). In an album setting, progressive bands usually have an over-arcing theme throughout the album that continues from one song to the next. IFD follows the traditional form of song writing but follows a progressive album structure.
