Tom Waits said, Beefheart's music is made of bone and mud. On any album you can hear the like in this. It sounds like a horde of hungry Neanderthals had already dug in their cave on the studio equipment. Van Vliet sparked here by conventional song structures, as before. Only at the Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off, Baby and parts of Doc At The Radar Station More than on these predecessors, however, he knew how to resurrect from its musical reality shattering a large whole. The catchier titles are very strongly influenced by the bass, the times impulsive (eg Ice Cream for Crow) and times of rhythmic accentuation (The Host The Ghost The Most Holy-O), the basis sets, may hop on the extremely melodic guitar riffs. Besides the well known blues elements (this time much less represented) I think just to discover the game of guitar country and mariachi bonds. The fact that I can describe with common attributes or compare to other bands or Beefheart albums the style of this album hardly says a lot about his musical Eigentständigkeit. Each song is a collage of rhythm and melody chips, which were combined into more or less distinct new sound patterns. With New Wave has nothing to do the whole thing (in Ggsatz to parts of its predecessor). Many song notes one that he, baby goes back to an idea of the time of Lick My Decals Off. But even those who can inspire Sheriff of Hong Kong and making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee (Doc at the Radar Station), will probably find this album easy access. To approximate here the catchiest title: Semi-Multicouloured Caucasian (on untypical and eingängisten) Ice Cream for Crow The Host The Ghost The Most Holy-O The Past Sure is Tense The Witch Doctor Life Conclusion: An absolute masterpiece. Seriously. Who will bear coming back on. PS Also check out times the surreal video for the title Ice Cream for Crow to !! Not commercially available, is available on various fan sites as unfortunately very poor quality download. PPS From the title Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat conjured Van Vliet nor the much longer and incredible instrumental version Light Reflected Off The Oceans Of The Moon. To my knowledge available to only the Collection A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond. The Coronation of Beefheart's musical work.