We'll leave it to you to describe the music on the CD, although we advise just allowing yourself to experience and feel it. Listen to the words. Observe how it deftly sidesteps if not defies any categorization. It's guitar, bass, drums and singing. There's also some percussion. Bud played synthesizer on "Pyramids," and Jimmy Shortell played trumpet on "Sleight Of Hand." Curt sang, and so did Krist, who also played some guitar and a 12-string on "Pasted," the 15-minute opus that ends the album.

Savor the music and the lyrics. And then file the CD under "E" or within however you organize the broad but fitting rubric of rock 'n' roll under which this album belongs. Make sure it is somewhere that you can put your hands on it quickly. You will probably want to play this one again. And we suspect you'll want to keep this album around for a while. After all, Eyes Adrift plan on being around for more than a while.

Eyes Adrift was born while Curt Kirkwood, after two decades of playing in a rock 'n' roll band, was playing his first ever tour as a solo artist. He was having the time of his life doing so. Just before he hit Seattle for a gig, Krist Novoselic called him. "Krist came to show. He said, why don't we do some music?" Kirkwood explains.

Krist picks up the story. "I went to go see the gig and really enjoyed it. We were hanging out before and after the show. And the conversation came up, 'Well, what are you doing?' 'I'm not really doing much.' I was playing in town here with a few colleagues, but just for fun. So it was like, why don't we get together just for fun too?"

Meanwhile, down in Long Beach, Bud Gaugh was "ready to do something new. And I was looking through the paper and saw that Curt was playing solo. And I was like, hey, I wonder if he'd be interested in jamming. I enjoy his style of guitar playing. Maybe we can get together and jam. Maybe we'll get together and hate each other," Gaugh adds with a chuckle. "It just so happened that Krist had approached him a few days before."

Gaugh tracked down Kirkwood and called him as Curt was driving home to Austin, TX after his gig in Seattle. Soon afterwards, Krist came to Austin to jam with Curt, and it worked. "I called Bud," says Kirkwood, "and he said yeah." And a band was born.

"I loaded up the drums in my truck and showed up at Wire Recording in Austin, and that was about it," Gaugh recalls. It didn't take long for a genuine union to be forged among the three musicians. "The second day it was just like..." - Bud whistles - "oh, we've been doing this for a long time. We just started burning tape, and it was like, yep, this is definitely golden here. And it just kept getting better and better. And by the end when we had 'Pasted,' it was like, we could be really dangerous here."