Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe (March 14, 2025) Album • Page 23

This is so good.

 

Can confirm this is a great album to clean your bathroom to.

 

Definitely high up there for me

 

SING TOGETHER, TETHERED FOREVERRRRR

 

Play the Poet and the Continuum suite were standouts

 

Can’t wait to spend time with it this weekend

 

Huge mistake if this isn't in the setlist ASAP.

 

I really hope they do a NEVERENDER celebration for the Vaxis series. It deserves it

 

Semi-related but AFI's "Bodies" is a great album to fold laundry to.

 

Fucking adore Play the Poet

 

First listen down, pretty good. They lost my attention at tracks 8-10 but so far, I think I like this better than Vaxis 2.

 

Did someone say that there’s a way to purchase the digital album in a lossy format?

 

I definitely hear this, haha.

 

The digital release is lossy, not lossless, but I can't speak to any physical release

 

That’s what I was wondering, where to purchase the digital album. Its not on Bandcamp or their webstore

 

It's always been annoying to me that Coheed albums (outside of Afterman I think?) aren't on Bandcamp.

 

ahhh got it. Apple? I honestly have no idea

 

itunes.

 

The Father of Make Believe, Coheed and Cambria - Qobuz

Qobuz has it to buy.

 

I think the talk about lossy formats comes from the fact that even the "official" digital files look (and honestly sound IMO) like the dumbass producer recorded lots of the tracks that went into these songs as low bitrate MP3s. Absolutely jaw dropping incompetence for any engineer/producer, let alone at this level... yet somehow not shocking.

 

This is how Vaxis II sounded too, just zero room to breathe with the drums sounding too compressed. Trying not to get too wrapped up in it this time around.

Look at the bands Zakk Cervini has worked with. It's intentional. I'm guessing it comes from a place of mixing music to sound good on any speaker. Like it sounds good in a car, in the airpods, on a portable bluetooth speaker, but that's generally not what I'm doing other than Airpods.

 

This was enjoyable, but it didn't hook me at all in the way Vaxis II did. That one has also had more staying power than maybe any Coheed album for me overall.

 

JUST below Vaxis II for me but it’s still on the mountain. II leans a little more into their weird pop metal side, and I fucking love that side. Another track like Someone Who Can or Meri and it’s right there.

 

Yeah the compression and overall aesthetic is awful, as you'd expect of the guy known for shit like MGK. But this time there's a literal cutoff where the highest frequencies don't exist, which only really happens when you record something as a low bitrate MP3 file. Vaxis II didn't have the cutoff, even though the compression/loudness was just as bad.

Either the producer's team recorded these sweet guitar tracks as 160 kbps MP3s, or the band did and brought it to him and he didn't object... can't think of many other explanations.

 

Just finishing up my play through of Vaxis 2.

Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to listen to Vaxis 3 sometime tonight.

But until then, Window of the Waking Mind is so much fun.