Catch Without Arms by Dredg

Catch Without Arms, the third album from Los Gatos, California's Dredg, came out on Interscope on June 21, 2005, and it's the sound of an art-rock band deciding to cut to the chase. Terry Date produced alongside the band, and after the sprawl of El Cielo the songs here are simpler and more direct: Gavin Hayes singing and playing guitar and slide, Mark Engles on guitar, Drew Roulette on bass and synthesizer, and Dino Campanella on drums, organ and piano, all pulling toward big, sweeping, melodic hooks.

The trimmed-down approach paid off. No earlier Dredg record had made the American charts, but this one did, while "Bug Eyes" put the band on MTV, bringing their cult following its first real brush with the mainstream.

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