Chicago-based outfit Without Waves is an eclectic group pulling influences from as far-reaching as The Dillinger Escape Plan and Devin Townsend through to the prog-rock of Porcupine Tree. Their new album, Comedian, dropped through Prosthetic Records this past week, so we sat down with the band and got a track-by-track rundown on each of the themes inspiring this deep, thought-provoking record. 1. “Good Grief” “‘Good Grief’ is a loose socio-political commentary on the endless stream of information we are all subjected to; the toxic soapbox journalism, the hyperbolic punditry and sensationalism…all for what? Someone in power can tweet something and it can shift global markets, cause geo-political uproar, which ultimately affects normal people at a micro level. Take the old adage made f...
