(2020) The Residents – In Between Dreams : Live in San Francisco





Review:

Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents have remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions. Cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band’s members never identified themselves by name (though in the 2010s they would begin playing with the notion of individual identities) and always appearing in public in disguise – most often in tuxedos, top hats, and giant eyeball masks, which became one of their visual trademarks. The Residents also famously refused to grant media interviews, though “representatives of the Cryptic Corporation,” the business entity behind the group, would sometimes speak on their behalf. Captured in San Francisco during their 2018 world tour, The Residents – Tyrone, Eekie, Erkie and Cha-Cha – perform a suite of dream-themed songs, alongside offerings from their latest studio album, ‘Metal, Meat and Bone’. Including classics such as ‘Man’s World’, ‘Jelly Jack’, ‘The Black Behind’ and ‘Tourniquet Of Roses’ alongside fan favourites in ‘Monkey Man’, ‘Mickey The Mumbling Midget’ and suchlike, this CD and DVD set captures the sight and sound of the new-look four-piece group, lavishly attired in tribute to The Mysterious N Senada, their Bavarian mentor, following the stripped back Randy, Chuck and Bob era.











Tracklist:

01 - Jelly Jack The Boneless Boy

02 -  Mickey The Mumbling Midget

03 - Baby Sister

04 - The Black Behind

05 - Monkey Man

06 - It's A Man's Man's Man's World

07 - Rushing Like A Banshee

08 - Train Vs Elephant

09 - From The Plains To Mexico

10 - Africa Tree

11 - Hungry Hound

12 - Tell Me

13 - Die! Die! Die!

14 - Teddy Bear

15 - Tourniquet Of Roses





Media Report:

Genre: art rock, experimental

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits