Review: Ayreon - 01011001
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Overflowing with the grandiose ambition youd expect from an Ayreon rock opera, 01011001 is more memorable than its title suggests. The binary code offers a clue to the double albums theme, a familiar one for Ayreon fans technology figures large in the narrative, which chronicles the individual and social ills caused by widespread technological dependence on a planet called Y. The prosaic lyrics of some tracks signal the records weaker points, where rock opera verges on the dreaded musical, or falls into the trap of foregrounding storytelling over music. The jarring irony of combining folk balladry and go nowhere...
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