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Les Claypool

“OF WHALES AND WOE”

RATING: 3 SOUND LEVELS

No one pops in a Les Claypool-related album expecting anything but madness. Of course, it’s a palatable and highly amusing sort of madness. Claypool’s well-worn lyrical themes (rednecks, seafaring and fishing, weird sexual disorders) come to the fore on his latest solo release. This is a nimble, jazz-inflected collection of spiky aural sketches from a unique voice, even if that voice is 20 feet underwater and stoned out of his mind.