A confounding, confusing set of songs out of line with linear time. Leading off with outright jazz, dipping into ghostly doo-wop, New Orleans dirges, R&B revenants, wax cylinder blues. None of the songs _are_ any of these styles exactly. It's all pale reflections, all songs _about_ styles, without any clear vision of their own, and I can't decide if its brilliant or a mess or both, landing somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle that 50's-nicking Zappa, graveyard-wandering Waits, and Play-era Moby adumbrate. A haunted hedgemaze of a record; I don't think I liked it, but bumping around in it was a fun little confoundance.
Definitely recommended to anyone looking for anything different, at least 3.5/5
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