Great American Road Trip

With song titles like "The Third Derivative of James Brown," "Layover in Hamemet" and "Steve's Stunt Double," I was expecting an album of crazy songs with unique stories; what I got was an instrumental album that was okay at best.

Many of the songs on the album are instrumentals. I guess with the title of the album being Great American Road Trip, Hectic Watermelon was trying to gather sounds from all over the nation. However, the songs do not flow together and most sound like an attempt at jazz, but they fail.

In the few songs where there are lyrics, such as "Twenty-First Century Visigoth," the lyrics tell us, "this isn't modern rock radio," and then turn into a skat song. Well, the lyrics of this song seem to sum up the whole album.

Great American Road Trip, is an album I thought missed its mark. I don't know who I would recommend this album to; maybe you can go get it and figure it out and then tell me.