In a way, it's a little odd that famed producer found it necessary to record a solo album, since he stamps his own signature on every album he makes. The artists he produces often sound like guests on their own records, as their voices get buried beneath his murky, self-aborbed production. On , he at least bills , and (among many others) as guest artists, leaving no doubt that these vocalists are merely a front for his production. And will sound recognizable to anyone familiar with work -- it's the standard junkyard percussion, clattering keyboards and self-conscious lo-fi effects, all taken to ludicrous extremes. Few of the songs are fully formed; they're merely vehicles for production experiments. Even when there are full-fledged songs, as on the -sung screws with the production so much that it barely comes out as listenable. It's possible that this self-satisfied cacophony is exactly what fans want to hear, but this lacks the focus of the semi-experimental or the songwriting skills that made his productions for listenable, even though all the singers collaborated on their work. Consequently, sounds like little more than a mess. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine