Yo I Killed Your God
When guitarist Marc Ribot debuted Shrek, the band's eponymousdebutstood out for its scouring, threshing-floor look atAlbert Ayler's ecstatic free jazz and a panoply of sounds more popularly associated with someone likeTom Waits. Again here you'll find assorted trips into the unknown, but few if any of them have the loose feel of Ribot's Shrek debut. Instead, you get one uptempo Cuban-flavored piece that smacks of the guitarist's major-label CD,Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, a bunch of scrappy, punked-up No Wave roughshods, and even some abstract immersions. It's totally understandable that a CD with a guitarist who's made his way into Waits's bands,John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, and multipleJohn Zornprojects would sound a bit uneven. In fact, the unevenness is really just a manifestation of the constant skewerings Ribot applies to everything. So dig in if you've got the will.--Andrew Bartlett