Search - Renaldo & Loaf :: Arabic Yodelling

Classic, crisp, crazy

Michael Webster | Los Angeles, CA United States | 07/03/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This debut album of the anonymous duo features beautiful, clean, enigmatic, 4-track recordings of tape loops, early music instruments, a Casio, guitar, and Supertramp-on-PCP lead vocals. If the Residents had studied music rather than art (only a guess mind you...). Brilliant, hand made, no rock-star attitude, part SCA, part surreal, a treasure."

Certainly not a CD to buy for your Grandmother

Michael Webster | 05/03/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Renaldo and the Loaf are tied to the Residents in many ways throughout their career, either by sharing living quarters, using the same studio, borrowing each other's instruments, helping each other out, etc.For the uninitiated, this album could very well be one of the most "catchy" but bizarre albums ever made. The vocals are high-pitched, the music is truly strange, the concept is very high, and for those who like Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, The Residents, and other strange acts, this band is a definite must. Your friends probably won't like it, but you will. Give it a listen!"