God Bless The Red Crayola And All Who Sail With It

by The Red Crayola

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Twenty bizarre musical gems from the masters of psych music.

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The Red Krayola: Mayo Thompson (vocals); Steve Cunningham (bass); Tommy Smith (drums).

Additional personnel: Holly Pritchett (vocals).

The second album from these Texas experimentalists is a marked change from its predecessor, PARABLE OF ARABLE LAND (released under the original spelling of the band's name before the famed crayon company took legal action). The auspicious debut was a completely unfettered kaleidoscope of jumbled sounds defying traditional roles of harmony and melody. GOD BLESS THE RED KRAYOLA, however, is more of an audio collage, with odd, disparate elements carefully arranged in a non-linear but aesthetically pleasing flow.

While psychedelic strangeness still reigns, the band embraces song form throughout most of this album, albeit a warped and fragmented song form. Most of the songs, which espouse a dadaist stance in both music and lyrics (sample title: "Ravi Shankar: Parachutist"), are under two minutes long. The cuts break rapidly into each other, giving the feeling of an LSD-soaked slide show prepared by a group of high-concept deconstructionists.