The Father of Make Believe
The Father of Make Believe Album ∙ Hard Rock ∙ 2025 Coheed and Cambria “It won’t get any easier as I start to get old,” Coheed and Cambria godhead Claudio Sanchez sings on “Yesterday’s Lost,” the nearly hymnal opening track to The Father of Make Believe . Indeed, the long-running emo-prog band’s 10th studio album has a personal and reflective quality that comes with watching the world change around you as the years go by. The fists-in-the-air anthem “Meri of Mercy” is a tribute to his late grandparents, while the tender acoustic ballad “Corner My Confidence” is a highly romantic zoom-in that Sanchez composed during the band’s second S.S. Neverender cruise in 2023. But don’t mistake these sentimental moments as a sign that Coheed and Cambria’s ambition has slowed, as The Father of Make Believe is as forceful of a rock record as anything else in their discography. As evidenced on the pedal-to-the-metal “Goodbye, Sunshine” and the pounding “Someone Who Can,” they’re makin...