Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart, “Trout Mask Replica” (Reprise, 1969)
On this album, the Captain left the continent of hitherto-existing rock behind and created his own world of sound. Jagged shards of guitar-gnarl driven by impossible rhythms form a canvas for Cap’s multi-octave fractured folktales of nature’s mystery, mankind’s futility, and a lot of other shit no one’s even figured out yet.
Try 1, 10, 12, 24.
2/14/13