EAT THE BUGS

This is the 17th studio album from Mutiny in Jonestown and signals a welcome return to the world of prog. What's unusual, is this album contains more instrumentals than vocal pieces which I don't believe has ever been the case before. The album opens with 3 instrumentals touching on a few different prog styles. The second song, "Duct Tape and Plastic Wrap" introduces a new mellotron platform for the band. Prior to this, a synthesizer module called an Emu Vintage Keys provided the mellotron sounds for the band. This was the first Mutiny in Jonestown album to use a Yamaha Motif as its' main synthesizer. The exciting thing about that is the Motif was also a sampler and a 3rd party partner created mellotron voices for it. Unlike the Emu module, this Motif mellotron collection was actually created by sampling a mellotron 400 1 key at a time for each sample. This effectively meant the Motif had the exact somewhat out of tune character of an actual 400 because each individual note was an accurate copy of the original, including the approximate 8 second time each note could sound before the tape ran out!

This new mellotron sound is used extensively in the next multi section 8 plus minute piece, "The Long March". A couple more abstract pieces follow, most notably the 15 plus minute strange journey featuring highly processed vocals, "Dear Moon". The album concludes with a couple instrumentals, the 6 plus minute "Saturday Suite" with some nice lead synthesizer soloing and the very strange instrumental with highly processes vocal samples, "If I've Told You Once?"

The album is available on BandCamp and provides another side to the band with the majority of highly adventurous instrumentals. I believe this is a 4 star album.