“Nothing smells so arrogant as a rock opera. Back in the day, only the biggest, most self-absorbed arena rockers could turn their meandering, ridiculous "deaf/dumb/blind pinball star" concepts into hit albums. The punk revolution tried but failed to wipe these dinosaurs from history, so it's a gutsy move that a hardcore act-- even one as twisted and avant-literate as Racebannon-- would follow in th”
