DUCK STAB / BUSTER & GLEN

After a couple of years interacting musically with madness, experimentation, sound effects and wars consequences, The Residents seem to have arrived at what is the greatest work of their discography. Pop has rarely been an accomplice of such a perfectly expressed degree of madness.

What surprised me most about this band when I found them was to read that the names of their members were anonymous, although due to the lyrics of the songs that makes sense. As the good symphonic rock enthusiast that I am I sometimes find it hard to get into such perverse and transgressive albums as this one because here not only the rules are broken in the lyrics but also in the sinister sounds that work as arrangements and in the way the instruments are played.

The album goes through every existing tone, while dark repetitions happens giving to the songs of the album a clever, machiavellian and sarcastic sense.

Is very important the sense of the lyrics. Something I find curious about this album (as I don't usually feel this way with other albums) is that much of the immersion into this insane field is the responsibility of the lyrics. In a short album of short songs the perversion tries to go down many different paths, focusing on the typical psychopathic vision of the nature-loving but man-hating human being. It is a very interesting album to listen to and ideal as a recommendation for those who want to be introduced to this kind of music.