Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind review –rocket-fuelled pop anthems

Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind review –rocket-fuelled pop anthems

 

The prog rockers delivered some of their most concise and infectious songwriting without the self-indulgence of The Unheavenly Creatures

Coheed And Cambria.
Sprawling that stops at the concept … Coheed and Cambria. Photograph: Alexandra Gavillet

Conceptually, New York prog rockers Coheed and Cambria seem inaccessible. The entirety of their 20-year output, save a one-off detour in 2015, has taken place in a sci-fi cosmos called Heaven’s Fence. What started as a way for frontman and comic book geek Claudio Sanchez to express himself has spiralled into a mess of metanarratives with countless characters.

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