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Bay Area progressive rock act Dredg has been known to find inspiration for songs and albums in pretty lofty places. The band's 2002 album El Cielo was based on Salvador Dali's famous painting Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, and certain songs on the just-released album The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion were inspired by controversial British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's essay "Imagine There's No Heaven: A Letter to the 6 Billionth Citizen."

But the vision behind The Pariah's haunting track "Lightswitch" comes from a very different (and much more accessible)...