Tonight You Look Like a Spider

Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow's new solo album Tonight You Look Like a Spider-- a record 15 years in the making-- is mostly instrumental, alternately brilliant and terrible, sometimes focused, at other times hopelessly rambling.

Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow's new solo album Tonight You Look Like a Spider-- a record 15 years in the making-- is mostly instrumental, alternately brilliant and terrible, sometimes focused, at other times hopelessly rambling.

Best viewed as an extension of the Jesus Lizard frontman's physical artwork rather than musical endeavours, his solo debut is still brilliant. Sort of brilliant.

Best viewed as an extension of the Jesus Lizard frontman's physical artwork rather than musical endeavours, his solo debut is still brilliant. Sort of brilliant.

Fourteen years on from the Jesus Lizard’s demise (excluding reunion tours), David Yow has finally released a solo debut which was purportedly conceived even before the breakup. The long gestation process has not, however, resulted in the kind of taut, intense precision with which the Jesus Lizard are associated. Tonight You Look Like a Spider was apparently inspired by Mike Patton, and the LP is a bleak trawl through a loosely-structured Patton-esque soundscape of paranoia and abrasiveness.

Fourteen years on from the Jesus Lizard’s demise (excluding reunion tours), David Yow has finally released a solo debut which was purportedly conceived even before the breakup. The long gestation process has not, however, resulted in the kind of taut, intense precision with which the Jesus Lizard are associated. Tonight You Look Like a Spider was apparently inspired by Mike Patton, and the LP is a bleak trawl through a loosely-structured Patton-esque soundscape of paranoia and abrasiveness.