Back in the early '70s the band, as yet unnamed, recorded a demo and sent it off to Warner Brothers Records to see if they were interested. Unsurprisingly they weren't and without a name to return it to they post marked it to "Resident" at their return address. And thus The Residents found their name. Now these demos had laid gathering dust and unreleased, despite fan's cries to hear them. It wasn't until a couple of tracks got leaked to the internet that The Residents finally caved in and got a plan to release the material. However, they weren't content to just release them as is, I think partly from a deep distaste of doing things simply, and partly because they weren't fond of them anymore. So they did a remix of the demos.

The results are really good. Even though we'd love to hear the original tracks, what's here feels like the experimental genius of old Residents mixed with good production and tasteful electronic beats. While it's certainly a far cry from what the originals would have sounded like, it is also by far better than anything they've released in the past number of years.

The only downside is that is hard to tell what was from the demo and what was added in the remix. That is a compliment to the album that everything feels really seamless, however, that keeps the listener wonder what exactly is what.

That complaint is minor because this is a very good album and I definitely recommend it to all Residents fans and anyone who wants so music that is left of the beaten path. It will go down as a great compliment to The Residents' older material, their best material.