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...well. After four decades of bite-sized, digestible songs of appropriate lengths and recognizable lyrics, there may be something of a crisis brewing in certain music circles. What is there left to do? One response is Sigur Ros’ experiments with wordlessness and nameless orchestrally constructed opuses. Claypool??s approach is possibly even more mischeivous...
...songs, at least to the untrained ear, have little lyrical content, and what they do have is largely irrelevant: words are simply a starting point and an excuse to add Claypool??s nasal vocals to the Flying Frog’s sonic stew. Songs are extended almost indefinitely, mutating as they go. It’s as though Sigur Ros got very drunk and woke up in Vermont playing blues for rock fans. Claypool even led the crowd in a Viking chant...
...psychedelic acoustic jams that sound a bit like the mellower moments of Led Zeppelin (compare with “Bron Y-Aur Stomp” off III). One might wish that Claypool had managed to trade for a vocalist to compare to the storm whipped up by the instruments; Claypool??s nasal cartoon voice and Anastasio’s simple waster mumble both serve them well, but pale in comparison to their music—the lyrics are merely a trampoline to get the band bouncing before they head off into the clouds. It all comes together beautifully...
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