The Mother Stone, Caleb Landry Jones, May 1 2020, 1:05
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
I know this fellow as an actor, in War on Everyone and as Banshee in one of the X-films. He sings and plays drums, keyboard, and guitar on this album. It's period psychedelic rock. It's not original at all, but if you love late Beatles material, with all the string arrangements and weird voices and such, or heck, even if you love the Rutles, you’ll probably like this. Shades of T-Rex, Pink Floyd, Bowie, and Kramer too. It’s earnest, if a bit long (15 tracks, two over seven minutes and two over six minutes) and not cohesive as an album. Uncharitably, it's self-indulgent; charitably, it proudly follows a muse. I'm going to go with charitable. Favorite tracks: "Licking the Days," the wild epic "Thanks For Staying."
