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Here's the ORGAN album review

THE RESIDENTS - Animal Lover (Mute) - So, just when you think that things cannot be any stranger, that your ears may have just encountered their weirdest piece of music yet, 'Animal Lover' elevates to a further level of strangeness. Dark, jewelled, woozy songs; rich, unnerving, addictive (under)sea shanties, skewed from normal scales by a few degrees, as if received from one of those other dimension Mr Hawkings goes on about. The Residents are, of course, The Residents: you've either heard them before, at some point in their long career, or you won't have a chance of imagining what they do. They are extraordinary. It is hard to listen to this album for any length of time without feeling slightly changed by it. I just wish that I was more familiar with their long career to be able to put 'Animal Lover' in context with what The Residents have composed in recent years (though I have been treated to selected earlier recordings by fanatical friends, the tip of an iceberg of creativity). At the risk of some Residents aficionado shaking their head and going 'oo, but they're not as good as they were back in etc'... this album sounds to me like an absolute classic - and an accessible one. These fifteen songs and instrumentals are modulated by that utterly unique Residents hypnotic, slurred beauty, possessing depth and subtlety, unexpected and unheard-of sounds. I had porcupine quill-sized goosebumps from start to finish. In common with many of their releases, 'Animal Lover' is a concept album, this time dealing with the differences between humans and animals (from the point of view of the animals). There is also a coherent melodic theme running through the album that is reminiscent of gamelan compositions: sometimes ominous, always beautiful even when twisted into a tense shape, these pure, archetypal tunes could have started as a fragment of sound slowed down to individual notes. The gamelan itself (or something sounding like it) is used to mesmeric effect on, for instance, the hair-raising atmospherics of 'Monkey Man' and 'Whispering Boys'; elsewhere, Arvo Part comes to mind in places; The Sea Nymphs/Spratley's Japs in particular during the glorious female harmonies throughout and the extraordinary vocals of 'What Have My Chickens Done Now'. With atmospheres ranging from cheerily catchy, menacing grooves to the disturbing dronescapes of 'Burn My Bones', 'Animal Lover' is immediately absorbing and involving, maybe even a goodfirst step into The Residents' extensive and very very strange world. Beware - those tunes invade your head... you will change...