(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