If you're looking for pop hooks, machine driven beats, or formulaic songs, this is not the record for you.
If you are looking for a surreal, emotional, fiery interpretation of a landscape and the state of a corrupt land (through coyote metaphors and a survivalist mentality), then this is an exemplary recording.
Experimental, trancelike, explosive, lyrical, poetic, eerie, gritty are just a few bumbling attempts at describing this album, which does not lend itself to ego or narcisism. Instead the ghosts of a geography dance with the coyote and serpents never fail to find prey and shed skin. . .and Johnette seems equally eager to shed hers.
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