Crover describes this outing as more

"psychedelic" than their last, Stoner Witch . As is typical of a

Melvins' album, the songs are not easy to decipher. Take, "Skin Horse," for

instance. Upon hearing the helium, baby-voiced dirge you might be tempted to

laugh and chalk it up as a goof song whipped up on a whim. Not so fast there,

smarty. "That's actually a pretty serious song," says Crover, no hint of

sarcasm in his voice. "It might be funny when you first hear it, but then it

gets kind of spooky. We were trying to make it sound like a music box and we

toyed with getting a real kid to sing on it, but we knew it would be too much

work to get it right, so we just use effects to make the vocals sound like a

kid's. It's really very sad and eerie." Then, of course, there is the song that

appears to be their "Pepper," the seemingly too-smooth "Black Bock." A

sweetly-strummed acoustic ballad that features almost decipherable lyrics and

plaintive vocals, "Bock" is what the band came up with when they decided to

write a "wimpy pop song." But, of course, there is more to it than that. "We

tried to write a wimpy ballad and Buzz was inspired by something he read about

these Nordic satanic bands burning churches...

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