You want bizarre? We've been seriously looking forward to this, the 10-year anniversary retrospective CD of cult avant-munchkin cut-up from ESPECIALLY LIKELY SLOTH, the long running solo project from Jason Walton of Nothing/Agalloch/Sculptured and Audio Savant Records. When composing and performing ESPECIALLY LIKELY SLOTH's insane music, Walton claims to come under the possession of an eight-year old mentally handicapped child named Chris Cobb who has taken over Walton's personality to sing the perils of a new era of Hell. When you hear this, you won't doubt it. ESPECIALLY LIKELY SLOTH is a car-wreck of saturday morning cartoon Casio synths, smurf-dance beats, helium eating circus buzz,movie and television samples, cassette noise carnage, brain damaged pop punk and saccharine chipmunk metal, and totally unclassifiable,indescribable weirdness that will either have you rolling on the floor in paroxysms of sugar shock, or scrambling for the nearest egg beater to go to work on your grey matter. The lyrics are absurd, but awkwardly clever, and the singing is a mix of Walton/Cobb's stream-of-consciousness squeaky toddler voice, gleeful hyperspeed chipmunk vocals and munchkin scat singing, and growly muppet vocals, like Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. Seriously. But this is all held together with ridiculously complex arrangements, stop-on-a-dime time changes, and skilled musicianship. It's funny, and totally silly, but Walton obviously put a lot of care and attention to detail when he constructed these epileptic pop fits, making it a complete, albeit ridiculous, listen. We suppose you could compare this to early Mr. Bungle meets The Danielson Famile, or Kids Of Whitney High forming a casio dance/pop punk/speed metal band, but that still won't give you a clue as to how completely, wonderfully fucked up this is. Titles like "Don"t Wake The Sleeping Bags", "That's Not My Stomach (I Don't Like Your Stomach At All)", "Carrion Luggage In My Closet" or lyrics like "Let's Put The X in BMX" only scrape the surface of the absurdist nature of the Especially Likely Sloth experience. And some of these melodies will haunt you for days, it's that disturbingly catchy. A magnificent, vivid explosion of imagination that will perplex and confuse most people. For us, it's one of the most enthusiastic and wonderful damaged pop collections we have in our CD racks. Serving as an early discography of sorts, this CD collects twenty tracks from cassettes released on the Wheelchair Full Of Old Men label from the late 90's. Highly recommended, but only to those interested in totally bizarre outsider pop!