Trout Mask Replica | Red Pressing | VG+

Release Date: April 7, 2009

Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica from 1969 delivers 28 tracks of fractured blues rhythms, abstract wordplay, and deliberately atonal guitar work that sounds like Delta blues deconstructed and reassembled by a mad poet. The music lurches between time signatures with Beefheart's gruff vocals barking surreal lyrics over jagged, interlocking instrumental parts that create a uniquely disorienting listening experience.

Standout Tracks

• Frownland: The disorienting opener with its stuttering rhythm and abstract vocal delivery
• Ella Guru: One of the more accessible tracks with its driving beat and memorable vocal hooks
• Pachuco Cadaver: A sprawling piece that showcases the band's complex rhythmic interplay

Mood: challenging, experimental, surreal, abrasive

Tracklist

1. A1. Frownland (1:39)
2. A2. The Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back (2:04)
3. A3. Dachau Blues (2:21)
4. A4. Ella Guru (2:23)
5. A5. Hair Pie: Bake 1 (4:57)
6. A6. Moonlight On Vermont (3:55)
7. B1. Pachuco Cadaver (4:37)
8. B2. Bills Corpse (1:47)
9. B3. Sweet Sweet Bulbs (2:17)
10. B4. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish (2:25)
11. B5. China Pig (3:56)
12. B6. My Human Gets Me Blues (2:42)
13. B7. Dali's Car (1:25)
14. C1. Hair Pie: Bake 2 (2:23)
15. C2. Pena (2:31)
16. C3. Well (2:05)
17. C4. When Big Joan Sets Up (5:19)
18. C5. Fallin' Ditch (2:03)
19. C6. Sugar 'n' Spikes (2:29)
20. C7. Ant Man Bee (3:55)
21. D1. Orange Claw Hammer (3:35)
22. D2. Wild Life (3:07)
23. D3. She's Too Much For My Mirror (1:42)
24. D4. Hobo Chang Ba (2:01)
25. D5. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) (2:04)
26. D6. Steal Softly Thru Snow (2:13)
27. D7. Old Fart At Play (1:54)
28. D8. Veteran's Day Poppy (4:30)