Gavin Hayes makes his final appearance as a guitar player, later stepping to mainly a vocalist and playing the occasional lap steel guitar. On this album, dredg shows a sound that they would soon abandon almost entirely on their next release, El Cielo. The band issued this statement about their album: "We decided to call this release 'Leitmotif' because we wrote our music based upon the adventures of a wise man who traveled around the world to become a pure soul." The music contains edgy guitars mixed with vibrant bass and powerful drums. Their defining concepts of change and beauty form together in this album. Leitmotif finds dredg just finding their true inspiration into music. Shannon Harris: Vocals on Traversing in the Arctic Cold, We Search for the Spirit of Yuta Leitmotif shows a band not searching for commercial success and staying true to what they believe, making music that they feel inspired to make at that very time in their lives. Far into the depths of unknown musical releases, a small band named dredg from Los Gatos, California released their first full length album, driving away from their rap rock past to a raw, edgy sound. Lance Armstrong won his first Tour De France. The second wave of Star Wars movies began, and The Matrix was released. In 1999, MySpace officially launched, Napster became a reality, and Britney Spears launched her debut album.
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