God I hate this fucking band.

You don’t get to make a concept album (much less develop some larger, intentionally cryptic mythos, complete with abstract “characters” and hidden “clues” on your website) unless your music is halfway decent to begin with.

I keep seeing all this crap surrounding their new singles, like “Ooooh, who is this “Clancy” all of a sudden? What could the deeper symbolism be in all of this?”

I’ll tell you what it means- fuck all.

It’s a gimmick to make these now multi-millionaires seem like subversive figures instead of the lowest common denominator, by-the-numbers, corporate rap-rock excretions they really are.

And taking your band name from a semi-obscure bit of information in an Arthur Miller play? Get fucked. You’re not the only ones who took an entry-level American Authors course in high school.

Use this whiny garbage for kindling and put on Dark Side of the Moon or Tommy if you want something “conceptual”. Blech