The Claypool Lennon Delirium- Monolith of Phobos (2016)

The Claypool Lennon Delirium- Monolith of Phobos (2016)

By: Ghost Writer

John Lennon always had great bass players along with him, Sir Paul McCartney, one of the best bass player in the sixties, and Klaus Overman, a graphic artist who not only made that great cover for the Revolver album, but played devastating bass along Lennon's brutal noisy guitar on the legendary Why, by Yoko Onto, on the infamous first recording by the impressive Plastic Onto Band, son it wouldn't be so naive to think that one day, not so far from know we could listen to extraordinaire bassist Les Claypool of Primus fame, play on the mighty Plastic Ono Band, but in the meantime we have an unexpected collaboration than none other than Sean Lennon bringing not only his voice, but his guitar and drum playing into this thing called The Claypool Lennon Delirium, an outstanding project featuring the talent of both players that would surely make old John Lennon proud of his son.

Now, you bet this TCLD is a truly obscure musical effort dwelling in the dark aide of psychedelia, featuring Claypool's twisted vocals, hyperactive quirky bass playing and crazed storytelling on first track The Monolith of Phobos, here we also get the chance of listening to Lennon's out there guitar playing and helium filled hallucinating vocals, and then Claypool laying down some powerful bluesy inspired bass guitar in the Syd Barrett like Cricket and the Genie, a great chunk of undiluted dark psychedelia lifted thru the air thanks to Sean voice, returning again on the hypnotic second part of the theme which definitely wouldn't be so out of place on a record like Abbey Road by Sean's famous father band.

Mr Wright is close to Primus wicked little suits, but amazingly it has also some of John Lennon's quirky vocal moves, in a way is amazing how Claypool gives the chance to Sean to recreate some of John Lennon's trademark music tendencies without simply imitating him, coming out like an impressive and weird music of John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Primus and early Pink Floyd, if such a thing could be imagined, and definitely needed to be listened in order to believe it.

Sean Lennon take the driver's seat on the beautiful and enigmatic Boomerang Baby an almost ethereal tune tortured by Claypool's nightmarish sounding bass, although this seems to be a definite Sean effort with powerful drumming and pristine instrumentation, bit after that there's a small missteps on a couple songs just going nowhere, and is until Ohmerica that the duo regains the focus with a beautiful quirky tune, followed by the abrasive blues of Oxycontin Girl.

The duo again submerges into superb sour psychedelia taking the concept really far on the pessimistic Bubble Bust, with a melody penned by Sean and performed in a perfect way, proving that Monolith of Phobos is quite a record all of its own featuring the surprising meetings of two enormous talents, Sean Lennon might never become a famous rock star like his father, but he is admirably making his own way, closer to the outsider status of his infamous mother and getting in touch with rock n roll true rebels like Claypool, another of my favorite recordings of the year.