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I've been holding off scoring this for a few days to see how it sits with me. I think I've arrived at a conclusion, having listened to it end to end three or four times.

I hate it; it's one of the worst things I've heard, but it's oddly compelling. I love it, but it drives me crazy. Possibly deserves five stars just for the phrase "fast and bulbous" which makes me giggle each time. Fuck it, four stars. I may amend to five in the future.

Haha, what the...??!

Listening on YouTube added to the batshit craziness, I couldn't tell when there was an advert or was it part of the album?! The comments section did make me laugh!

"I have never experienced such a strong desire to keep listening and stop listening at the same time."

"I listen to this album when I vacuum my lawn."

"This sounds like a Salvador Dali painting."

"This sounds like an entire band falling down the stairs, but they keep playing."

I ended up watching a few more YouTube videos dissecting this album and I found myself slowly warming towards it's mastery and absurdity.

A review while listening: A minute and a half in and I'm dreading the next hour and 16 minutes. Moonlight In Vermont isn't bad. But good god I'm ready for this to be over. Twenty minutes left, this is perhaps the worst album I've ever heard. Suddenly it switches up to a cool kind of funky vibe - oh wait no, that's just an ad for Hilton hotels because this is not on Spotify and you have to listen to it on YouTube. Honestly I don't blame Spotify for not wanting this on their platform. Just because you can get into a recording studio doesn't mean you should. Absolutely a waste of an hour and 18 minutes, and that's time in my life I'll never get back. I'm thinking of taking some kind of legal action for damages. By far, the best part of this record is the comment section for it on YouTube. There's some gold in there. 0/5 if it were possible.

As a huge Tom Waits fan I was into this. Super weird, super funny. Definitely not for everyone.

Puuh olipahan kokemus tämä 80 minuuttia. Osa kokeiluista tuntuu aika puolivillaisilta, mutta toisaalta kiva että tällaista musaa on listalla. Osa biiseistä on jopa ihan hyviä, ja arvostan pelotonta ja humoristista otetta, joka tässä on otettu. 4/5

Imagine if every instrument from every song played at the same time. Well that's what this album sounds like. Sensory overload

The only positive thing I have to say is that I had to listen to this on youtube. So thankfully my algorithm isn't tainted

1 ⭐️

Ostia puta.

Helemaal uitgeluisterd. Wat een verschrikkelijke vorm van zelfkastijding.

How do you even begin to review this?
I truly didn't like most of this in the way you would enjoy a pop or rock album, but that isn't the point. This is challenging, but at the same time wildly entertaining.
Once you get over the immediate shock, the pieces seem to fall into place, and a 2nd listen is much smoother than the first.

Absolutely wonderful crafted chaos of magic and justice. I will accept no less than 5 stars. The goal is weird, and they crushed it.

I’m… I’m somewhere. When I wrote my little review for Safe as Milk, there’s one sentence I threw in there: “If you’re gonna try to be this innovative for 1967, then go all in.” This album is them going all in, and I feel like the genie took my wish and bastardized it beyond my wildest dreams. Is that a bad thing? Is that a good thing?

Well, it was 79 minutes of something, alright, but you can’t say it wasn’t captivating or intriguing. You can certainly call it bad, but I don’t know that it is bad. Does it deserve to have an average rating of 2.27? No, I wouldn’t go that low. I think I’m at a 3, somehow.

I know what this album is trying to do, or at least, I think I do – it’s simply trying to exist. There is an incredible complexity behind the actual compositions and melodies and everything here, and that complexity is entirely grounded and almost canceled out by the most nonsensical lyrics and the most grating vocal performance that any album has ever had. Grating doesn’t necessarily mean bad in this case, it just means… divisive.

This album’s gonna be divisive. I don’t think it’s bad, I don’t think it’s THAT good either, but it’s a journey. It’s music that fundamentally challenges the entire structure of the genre, of Beatlemania, and of an artist’s obligation to make music that’s actively commercially appealing. It’s batshit insane, but it’s technically sound, even if it feels entirely wrong or completely uncomfortable at times. There may truly never be anything produced like this, with such little commercial appeal, and yet so meticulously produced to evoke such a reaction that it somehow loops around to having appeal again.

I would say it’s like listening to a band trying to perform over Zoom, with each instrument on an individual call, but that’s a disservice to just how brilliantly scattered these compositions tend to be. It’s more equivalent to say, the awful “rival” art present in Pokemon Art Academy on the 3DS – just go look at that shit. It’s designed perfectly to evoke poor artistry, and yet there’s a brilliance within that.

The only issue that this album has, besides its obnoxiously long run time, is its obnoxiously self-centered lead vocalist, who honestly drags this album down tremendously for me. It’s not that his vocals are ever bad, but they overpower the compositions and their complexity so much that it genuinely ruins the spirit of the musicality for me. His presence is not only awkward, it’s unneeded, and yet at the same time, his presence is entirely necessary to make the album’s overall tone work. It’s a conundrum, but it’s easily solved by just lowering his voice in the mix, and minimizing his presence, as well as his overly preachy poetry that sounds like a Brennan Lee Mulligan monologue fed through Google Translate 28 times over.

With all of that said, it is an enjoyable experience, but an excruciating one – the album did lose me at several points, but it also always managed to pull me back in just by doing some completely goofy bullshit that just happened to win me over more often than not. It’s not an album I’ll ever return to, but it’s one where I think I can genuinely appreciate how ballsy and avant-garde it feels for 1969. It’s an oddly recommended 3.

I just can't...I get it is supposed to be brilliant. But I can deal without this brilliance. 1/5

unlistenable

Dafuq is this?!

I usually only rate things poorly if it's extremely bad or if it's so long and far past the point of any enjoyment. This is both.

Wow this album is a mess, it’s too long, it’s too strange, I had to listen to it on YouTube, at times I didn’t know when the adverts stopped and the music started.

But there were parts of the album I really enjoyed, it’s different, it’s influential and it’s pretentious.

Overall my summary would be you need to listen to this at least once, it will be a chore and good chance you will hate it, but this challenge and life would be boring if we all just liked mainstream rock, so get outside your comfort zone.

Damn, the description is foreboding, this is not gonna be a good time.
In this 1001-album process I look forward to the 5* gems I find about once every two weeks, but there's also atrocious garbage that is **unique** that I endure. 1 minute into this album and I know this is the latter. Solid 1*
I think musical talent is somewhere in here, but it's put together in a completely unappealing way.
Pena was atrocious.

Not exactly easy listening but it's more palatable than it's reputation. Not something I'm going to listen to in full regularly but it's frequently thrilling, interesting and I can hear it's influence in a lot of modern music

This album isn't creative, it's just bad. There's a difference. St. Pepper's is a great example of creative and good. This one just sounds like dudes on drugs trying to play jazz after reading about it, but never hearing it. I’ve heard this album several times over the years, as it often makes lists like this. I think we’re just in an echo chamber with this album though. Just because a so-called expert thinks it’s good doesn’t make it so.

Ugh.