The simplest of these reasons might be that I'm just really enjoying it. Periphery is the kind of band that I think "real" metalheads look down their noses at a little bit, and I guess can understand that -- they are, after all, arguably the face of everybody's favourite djenre -- but I've been a fan of their work since back when it was just Misha putting stuff out on Myspace under his Bulb moniker. New Periphery material can never be a bad thing, and while Clear isn't likely to supplant some of their earlier stuff as my favourite work from their catalogue, it certainly does provide seven tracks of tasty goodness that are decidedly Periphery.
Well, decidedly Periphery with a twist. If you're already interested in or familiar with the band or the EP at all, you likely know that the deal is this: besides the more collaborative intro track, each of the remaining six tracks on the EP is primarily the brainchild of one of the band's six members, an elaboration on one of the melodic ideas from the intro. It's an interesting experiment, which is the other main reason I've got this EP on the brain. It's cool to see a band take an idea like this and run with it, and it's a testament to Periphery's success that they even have the ability to do so.
Yeah, that's a little long-winded for a Song of the Day, let alone one that's a day late and dedicated to something so *ahem* "mundane" as a Periphery song, but I'm diggin' it and I'm the one who's calling the shots here. So you're getting "The Parade of Ashes", the song helmed by singer Spencer Sotelo, because its dance-y chorus groove feels the furthest from standard Periphery to me.
