Les Claypool's a wildly creative dude, one of the greatest ever when it comes to reinventing an instrument. But that wildness cut both ways: his output with Primus was wicked uneven, only really coalescing for about half an album circa Seas of Cheese. Dude just couldn't be contained.
But this collaboration with Sean Lennon might be just what the doctor ordered. With a swirl of Beatlesey psychedelia, wonderous production tricks, and doubled-up gorgeous tunefulness - behold - the beast be yoked, if untamed.
That bass is still a star, but its tricks are put to service powering a rocketship to the depths of your mind. The lyrics are dead simple, a little too hung up on finding rhymes at the ends of lines, riding one theme all song long, but I don't know that it would work any other way. It's all wonderfully hypnotic. A swirling strangeness; insidious repetition giving way to swooping backcurrents, great for a strange night in 4/5
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