![]() ![]() ![]() Bass wizard Les Claypool and wizard-looking guitar virtuoso Sean Lennon were never archrivals, but a geographical separation on opposite coasts has kept them in their own corners of weird for 20 years. That’s a bit how it feels with The Claypool Lennon Delirium. And it’s fun to pick out a few Beatle-esque touches that crop up, in particular on the unusually titled “Cricket and the Genie (Movement ll, Oratorio Di Cricket),” parts of which have origins in “I Am the Walrus”-era Fab Four.Every great comic book hero has a memorable arc or story where they team up with an unlikely ally - maybe even a former archrival - for some exciting hijinks towards a common goal. But Lennon brings plenty of his less peculiar, more melodic, heavily hallucinogenic style too. ![]() ![]() Wright,” something that could have come off any existing Primus or Claypool side project. Rather it’s a full blown meeting of the minds, finding the twosome playing/overdubbing every instrument (Lennon handles drums), sharing producing credit and even providing the artwork.Īnything that Claypool touches is driven by his distinctive funky/twisted/punk-prog bass lines and a case can be made that his fingerprints are more dominant overall on these tracks, especially on tunes like the caffeinated, Silly Putty-riff pulsing through the lecherous tale of “Mr. The resulting venture could have been a self-indulgent mess, but it’s not. They weren’t necessarily planning an album, but they got a pretty great one anyway. The union began when Lennon’s Tiger band opened for Primus, forging a mutual admiration society that ended with Claypool inviting Lennon to his studio for further musical explorations. The result is this consistently enjoyable, often terrific, frequently challenging 11 track, 51-minute aural rocket ship exploration quite rightly tagged “delirium” by its duo of frontmen. Take one part of Les Claypool’s patented, instantly identifiable funk/prog bottom, add Lennon’s Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger band’s psychedelic pop, infuse with a dollop of ’60s Hawkwind/Pink Floyd space rock and turn them loose in a studio. The most surprising element of this collaboration between Primus’ frontman/bassist and Sean Lennon is how unsurprising it is. ![]()
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