The above poster is confused about this opus, it is definitely not 'mostly instrumentals'. Discs 1,2,3 and 5 are roughly 2-1 ratio of songs over instrumentals. That ratio increase to 3-2 for disc 4 and disc 6 is roughly 1-1. He may be confused but the long intro's to some of the songs, the long outro's to others and also long musical interludes between the lyrics on others.
It is a Bill Nelson opus and to my mind is better than Noise Candy. There are lots of interesting guitars, keyboards, drumming, percussive sounds and even some bass in there. The lyrics, as usual, are interesting as well, but then they usually are where Bill is involved. A lot of the lyrics are reflective of Bill's past.
As far as found sounds are involved there is only the one track, "The Infernal Machine", a particularly enjoyable instrumental, that exhibits that particular trait of Bill's. I have had the set for about three months now and listened to all of the discs a lot. I consider it a valuable part of my Bill collection but then again I have most of what he has put out and have only found one CD not to my taste's.
