Another supergroup. Good god, this man is relentless, not to mention a complete and utter musical visionary and a mind-blowing and standard-warping genius. No review of can go without mentioning the personnel behind this project, which mostly speaks for itself: of uncountable amazing projects, of , . This album sold thousands of copies before it was even recorded. What results meets and exceeds every expectation -- a sadistic, scatological birthing of shapeshifting, / -era textures and assaults, exquisitely layered with 's ridiculously amazing heaving, moaning, screeching, crooning, seething, muttering. While it is certainly more straightforward than any of 's other post- projects to date, no one could rightfully accuse of being an intentionally mass-marketable band, as some fans want to claim. An album with so many refences to murder, masturbation, feces, sodomy, and perversion just doesn't seem to yearn for radio-friendly status. could have dinner to this. Moody, violent, beautiful, sarcastic, vomitive, silly, heartstopping. ~ Blake Butler