Nexus

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I just listened to Argent's Nexus as the first album in my new listening schedule, and I noticed two things:

There's extensive alliteration in the second chorus of "Music from the Spheres":

Music from the spheres assails my ears 
It stills a season's song

I mention this only because that effect seems to provide extra emphasis to a song that's about music itself.

In "Thunder and Lightning," there are bass parts that mirror the lyrics that they follow.  After "There are times when you feel so good / That the only way to move is down" in the first verse, there's a downward phrase, and after "You play the game, and you just can't lose / And you're walking with your feet off the ground" in the second and third verses, there are upward phrases.