my proposal for am8 to both correspond with the progression of the band thus far and to capitalize off of some underutalized mechanisms within their most recent albums would be this: a 2-3 hour concept album entirely from the perspective of a little earthworm living in a plastic, see-through ball; his own little microcosm, floating on the waves of every major ocean in the world. he travels to the shore of every country but never leaves his plastic globe and in the endalways gets washed back out to the great blue beyond. some tracks are up to twenty-five minutes, and some are only thirty seconds. some have vocals but some are entirely instrumental with big, sweeping orchestras blaring in beautifully cinematic harmony. but then in the middle of the album there is an eight minute drum solo with matthew j heldrers iii just going ABSOLUTELY HAM on those fuckin drums. drum fill after drum fill, a full minute of alternating between crash cymbal, ride cymbal, and cowbell. he can even sing a bit if he wants to, entirely in falsetto. anyway i think this would make a negative million dollars and i would get the spotify qr code for the album lasered into my gravestone
