The best progressive rock albums are profoundly ambitious and forward-thinking, music that’s immense, expansive, and mind-blowing, with dramatic elements.
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead offer a phantasmagorical collection of songs on XI: Bleed Here Now that touch on post-punk, folk, and modern classical.
Today, 20 years later, the legacy of Trail of Dead’s Source Tags & Codes has developed as one that’s intertwined with Internet-based music journalism itself.
After a few albums of focused hard rock, Trail of Dead confidently begin to reintegrate the more pop-oriented experimentations that killed their early 2000s buzz.
Lost Songs is both the same Trail of Dead we’ve come to expect and the most accessible the group has been to date.
Source Tags and Codes is one of those albums that has – perhaps unfortunately for Trail of Dead – transcended the band that created it.
