One of the weirdest and delightfully psychedelic experiences put to vinyl. Zappa was out of his
tree here and the music is totally off kilter even inaccessible. The mind job on offer is akin to an
LSD experience and obviously catered to that hippy crowd. Who are the Brain Police? is quite
disturbing with out of tune monotone singing and very ethereal effects. The music is dominated by
60s organ and spacey guitars. The album is oppressive in places and even spouts political
messages that only the deranged may understand. Pink Floyd may have heard this and Syd
Barrett may indeed have utilised ideas as it is a precursor to the psych space prog that ensued.
Zappa and the Mothers were pioneers of zany humour in music and that is part of their repertoire.
Perhaps this album should be catalogued under comedy as it is rather amusing. Some songs are
full of whooping and hollering and occasionally people are heard jibbering nonsense that not even
the deranged may understand. Its a masterpiece of high strangeness and deserves to be heard
at least once and then perhaps discarded for the drivel it is. Nevertheless there is nothing like it
and we can all be grateful for that!
AtomicCrimsonRush |4/5 |
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