"With titles like “X-Ray My Dreams,” “Hot Licks for Shredders,” and “Smut Merchant of Venice” and a wide array of musicians, including Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, the Minutemen’s Mike Watt, and the Geraldine Fibbers’ Nels Cline, the odds that this limited edition CD (only 997 were produced) would be a creative success were fairly high. With twenty-two tracks, the end result is chaotic, sometimes uneven, but still captivating. Some of the songs seem to take their chosen titles to heart, whereas others sound like they just tacked them on to existing work, giving no direct correlation between the two. Basically, there’s something for just about everyone here."

"Neil Fallon’s acoustic “Instant Winner” – has the same affable charm as the more mellow songs in the Clutch catalogue. Given the title “Smile for the Soul-Stealing Camera,” Erik Larson delivers some of the Southern boogie of his solo album and Alabama Thunder Pussy’s work but overall it’s hardcore/thrash in execution, and thoroughly punishing. Most of the other more “conventional” (for lack of a better term) songs are garage-rock, punkabilly tracks like Harry Seitz’ “Sign Language Tourettes” and Jedediah Parish’s “The Sons of Lee Marvin". Johnette Napalitano’s ethereal “Memory of a Liar” could work on either a Concrete Blonde album or on Isis’s Oceanic. Interspersed between those songs are the more experimental sounding tracks. If you want to expand your taste in music, or if you’ve already got a fairly broad collection, I’d suggest grabbing a copy of this quickly."

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