fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
A recent edition of the Songs & Stories newsletter---subscribe for free today!---covered "The Dark Sentencer," one of the best recent tracks from prog-rock legends Coheed and Cambria. And because that song manages to incorporate a little bit of every era of Coheed, it got me thinking about each record that the band has released over [...]
The fast approaching end of 2019 means not only the end of the year but also of the decade. Ten years ago, in a similar situation, I was new to blogging and felt obligated to make clear that my decade-spanning retrospective was no more than one man's personal opinion. In 2019, there's no need for [...]
As regular readers of Type In Stereo will recall, on the heels of two Coheed albums that I didn't much care for, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Coheed & Cambria's 2012 release, The Afterman: Ascension. Being the first in a two-part, back-to-back release schedule, Ascension's success had me eagerly anticipating 2013's The Afterman: Descension. Well, Descension is [...]
While many of their contemporaries have disbanded completely, splintered off into various side projects, or - all too often - broken up only to reunite a few years later in what might lovingly be called a nostalgic tribute (and cynically, a cash-grab)1, Coheed and Cambria have simply kept at it. With a few lineup changes here and [...]
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