Project Success

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The title Project Success is only halfway sarcastic. Coming after the sprawling and intensely odd Flan, this is Dogbowl at his most "normal," with only one song, the Half Japanese-like "Going Out On A Date (With A Girl That You Like)" being particularly odd. The rest of the album is more like simple, cheerful, quirkiness, almost along the lines of They Might Be Giants or the Young Fresh Fellows, and some songs are actually utterly straight. The opening "Windmills Falling" is sublime, the prettiest and poppiest song Dogbowl ever wrote, a slice of psych-pop jangle pop similar to some of his then-labelmate Lida Husik's singles. Elsewhere, tracks like "Concrete Table of Love," and "Thinking of Omaha" are just as tuneful, but more in keeping with the fanciful lyrical imagery of earlier albums like Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain. Though possibly not his best album -- it does feature a couple of weak tracks, notably the draggy "Hemophiliac of Love" -- but it's his most accessible for those who don't feel like tackling the amiable weirdness that is Dogbowl head on. ~ Stewart Mason