Captain Beefheart – Ice Cream For Crow (1982) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2015] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

With yet one final Magic Band lineup in place, featuring Richard Snyder on bass and Cliff Martinez on drums alongside returning vets Jeff Moris Tepper and Gary Lucas, Beefheart put the final touch on his recording career to date with Ice Cream for Crow. It’s a last entertaining blast of wigginess from one of the few truly independent artists in late 20th century pop music, with humor, skill, and style all still intact (as even the song titles like “Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian” and “Cardboard Cutout Sundown” show). With the Magic Band turning out more choppy rhythms, unexpected guitar lines, and outré arrangements, Captain Beefheart lets everything run wild as always, with successful results. Sometimes he sounds less like the blues shouter of lore and more of a spoken word artist with an attitude, thus the stuttering flow of “The Host the Ghost the Most Holy.” “Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat” is even more entertainingly outrageous, Beefheart’s addictive if near impenetrable ramble about tobacco juice and straw hats and more backed by an insanely great arrangement. Magic Band members each get chances to shine one way or another – “Evening Bell” in particular demonstrates why Lucas went on to later solo renown, a complex, suddenly shifting solo instrumental that sits somewhere between background music and head-scratching “how did he do that?” intrigue.

Tracklist:
01. Ice Cream For Crow
02. The Host The Ghost The Most Holy O
03. Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian
04. Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat
05. Evening Bell
06. Cardboard Cut Out Sundown
07. The Past Sure Is Tense
08. Ink Mathematics
09. The Witch Doctor Life
10. “81” Poop Hatch
11. The Thousandth And Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole
12. Skeleton Makes Good

DSD flat transferred from U.K. original analogue master tapes.
Edited in DSD by Manabu Matsumura at Universal Music Studios, Tokyo, in 2015.

SACD ISO

CaptainBeefheartIceCreamF0rCr0w1982Japan2015SHMSACDIS0.part1.rar
CaptainBeefheartIceCreamF0rCr0w1982Japan2015SHMSACDIS0.part2.rar

FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

CaptainBeefheartIceCreamF0rCr0w1982Japan2015FLAC2488.2.rar