Ever since someone got the idea that an album should be more than a bunch of singles put onto a bigger piece of plastic, musicians have faced a particular dilemma: if you've made an ambitious and stylistically eclectic album, how do you make that work when you're playing those songs at your show? 2018's was one of the most expansive and diverse projects of 's quite prolific career, but when it came time to hit the road after the album dropped, came up with a simple but effective formula: forget the minutia and rock out big time. 2019's was recorded during two January 2018 shows in Los Angeles, and the song list curiously omits any tunes from . What it does deliver is and his band laying into their music as if their lives depended on it. documents a tight, heavyweight rock & roll band turning up the amps and wailing hard for the fans, and if it doesn't have a subtle bone in its body, it proves beyond a doubt that and his bandmates are still committed to the sweaty, passionate glory of The Rock Show. On , is backed by , the same core of musicians who helped him make , and they sound like a force to be reckoned with. is a great guitar foil for , matching and complementing the noisy majesty of 's soloing, 's fuzzy keyboards lend force and color to the arrangements, and bassist and drummer hit with the impact of a runaway cement truck. and recorded the concerts, and considering how crushingly loud this seems to have been, they've captured a commendable amount of detail in the final mix, allowing the listener to admire the individual contributions of the musicians as well as the grand spectacle of the ensemble in full flight. feels like 's answer to the 's epochal , and if it lacks that great album's sense of lysergic experimentalism, 's ability to graft garage punk noise onto a sonic onslaught worthy of more than compensates. Play this one loud -- as if you have a choice -- it's going to be loud no matter how low you set the volume. ~ Mark Deming