Animals as Leaders - Cognitive Contortions free for downloading

This is definitely a grower. This whole album took way longer to process than their other albums. Now I cannot get enough of it. Song rules once it settles in.

This is the definition of cognitive contortions

the only problem with this kind of complexity it's on the listener and his lack of flexibility to hear. just let yourself be carried by the rhythm and the visuals your mind create... this band it's all about feel the feelings ;P

Not every song needs to have a super catchy melody guys

i feel genuinely sorry for all these people who can't get into this, or don't want to get into this. AAL have tickled my musical sense in ways very few bands have done.

Show this to people who say that new music sucks!

Comments are literally a battle between people who like it and don't. Music is absolutely subjective, so quit trying to persuade others to your reasoning

I can feel my brain doing deadlifts listening to this.

can you not feel your brain getting a workout from listening to this

Where is the lyric video

Tosin's 90 degree thumb is amazing

Favorite music video AAL has released by far. I'm really digging the direction they're heading lately, more Holdsworth-esque jazzy ambient parts!

I didn't realize how much hate this was getting jeez. I've been listening to this in my car and at home enjoying the hell out of it. This is a musical interpretation of Cognitive Contortions.. well gee-wiz, look at that, it's the name of the song. It's really creative. Why do you need a repetitive catchy melody? How do you listen to AAL without also having listened to bebop/modern jazz and other progressive styles of music? I don't get it. There were jazz musicians back then that didn't like it. They said it had no emotion, but I and many others would disagree. It's just technical ability thrown on top of the emotion, so I understand why someone without that technical ability would think that, but it's something some of us strive towards. Imagine your own abilities being so refined that you could translate any idea like this from your mind to your instrument. I'm so passionate about this, because my creativity isn't stopping me, it's my playing ability. I am rarely able to translate a musical thought to my guitar, most the time I end up coming up with something different, and while that's all fine and dandy, I would much more enjoy just letting my creativity continuously flow without any barriers.

I like the part where they do the really complex thing.

To every one who is saying that it's complex and doesn't have a melody, etc. - it's just too complex for you. This song is beautiful, melodic. Those shifts between emotional spaces, mm, it's like a story. And that solo, aaaahhhhh...

- Hey what´s the scale of this song? - ALL OF THEM.