92. The Callous Daoboys - "Celebrity Therapist"

As always this list is brim-full of difficult but ultimately highly rewarding records and this is very much one of them. On first listen I found this to be impenetrable and non-linear. It wasn’t behaving as my brain wanted it to and ultimately, I found it frustrating and unsatisfying. But I know not to give up on the first hurdle and during numerous subsequent listens an intriguing and deeply fascinating record started to emerge. The trick here is to go into it with no expectations as whatever you think it is going to do next, it doesn’t. 

There are no joins or interlocking pieces, everything is slightly ajar from everything else. Over a number of listens, this stops being annoying and starts to be its charm. You realize that the leaps in musical narrative provide a level of uniqueness and freshness to the proceeding. On the umpteenth listen it is still taking me by surprise each time I listen to it, and that is no bad thing.