Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Album · Released 26 October 1999

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Scenes from a Memory works best as a continuous musical drama. Dream Theater give recurring ideas different emotional settings, allowing an instrumental phrase to carry a memory before the words explain its place. The record's ambition is most convincing when that relationship between music and story stays clear. Regression establishes the smaller vocal and acoustic scale before Overture 1928 opens the instrumental possibilities. The transition…