The third joint album release by Primus bassist/singer Les Claypool and Beatles son/multi-instrumentalist Sean Lennon, conceived as a concept album, features a likeable Gaga utopia story about AI control, paper clips and the parrot-ox paradox that gives it the title, which cannot be reproduced in more detail in this review framework.
So it’s good that at least the album is being released with an accompanying comic book by long-time collaborator Rich Ragsdale. Musically, the leading, Dadaist dream duo goes far less beyond the stylistic strands dictated by prog and psychedelia of the classic late sixties/seventies style.
Because despite all the fun with crazy ideas (and bass runs in particular), comparatively comprehensible song structures and a healthy amount of (pop) melodies are fortunately not just ignored. Anarcho-humorous, the pun-loving work definitely brings back memories of the confusing worlds of the two great Terrys (Gilliam and Pratchett). So one is almost inclined to regret that the plan that was originally envisaged, but failed due to time and scope, to turn the thing into a full-length animated film ultimately ended up in the trash. Although the album, as a beautifully crazy soundtrack to a non-existent film, fits better in the image and concept anyway.