I FORGIVE YOU FOR ALL MY UNHAPPINESS

Wait! What is this? It is the 9th album by French TV! Six amazing tracks with musicians doing feats of daring-do unlike anything you've ever heard ... well, maybe.

But when did that take place? 2010, the year that you were absent, silly!

Seven Rusty Nails - Starts off innocently enough, but soon goes off into fusion territory with a guitar wailing away all layers of other instruments play along. As with a lot of French TV's tracks, it's not long before it becomes unhinged, but this time in a nice and somewhat gentle way slipping between normalcy and oddness as easy as sliding on the ice will inevitably make you fall on your butt eventually. The gentleness ends after a while as things get more intense, yet also more fun.

Conversational Paradigms - Complex and totally nuts, but amazing how everyone in the band is right there with it. How do you write this stuff? This is what makes this band so great, it's unpredictable to say the lease, even with those weird vocalizations that seem to come out of nowhere. The music easily slips from one feeling to the next as if its all natural. This is music for the easily distracted that loves everything in some kind of strange organization that only makes sense to them. Is that me? It must be because I love it. Take everything you love about all of the instrumental prog bands you know and then but it all in a blender, and this is what you would come up with (a bit lumpy, though).

March of the Cookie Cutters - Spooky beginning, yet it manages to morph into a cartoon-ish march of sorts, but beware the horns as they are trying to turn it all into a free-form craziness, which they do, and the guitars just sit there complaining about it all. By the time you get to the 3 minute mark, forget about marching completely, unless you've been drinking, then maybe you can trip to the beat? Wait until you get to the progressive Dixieland jazz section. Has your mind been blown yet? Well, don't feel left out if you are one of the last ones with your head still intact, you'll soon join the crowd.

You Got to Run It Out, Dawson! - Dreamy and creepy beginning again flows into calliope style weirdness and then some killer bass. There is a returning motif that keeps showing up, but in between it all, you can expect pretty much everything from soundtrack-like sections to crazy guitar solos against a spacey electronic fiasco. Nice!

With Grim Determination, Terrell Dons the Bow Tie - Everything including the kitchen sink. Almost ridiculous instrumental lunacy. Wait, here's an idea! Yeah, but what about this one? Besides, who can say no to a bow tie?

Mosquito Massacre - Whirling around your head, their incessant buzzing can drive you crazy, but you can't quite catch them as they seem like they are anticipating your every move, you just can't slap them fast enough. If only they would stop long enough to listen to this track. But wait! There's a squirrel!! And it's a big one!

What can I say? How about "Yes!" to French TV. (I was going to say "Oui!" but these guys are from Kentucky. "So that explains it" she says, now understanding it all.)