Nonstoperotik is the 12th Black Francis album to have been re-issued by Demon Records in the last year. It is now on Crimson Vinyl for the first time. This album originally from 2010 features among others Eric Drew Feldman as producer and musician, David Henderson, Dave Phillips, Tony Maimone and Jack Kidney.
The a-side opens with a drum roll that leads into Lake Of Sin that's suitably grubby sounding, as Frank takes us to the sort of club that needs a special knock to get in.
O My Tidy Sum is a nicely sub/dom song of obedience and supplication with some cool strings as Frank dreams of the pleasure that comes from the pain he has invested his Tidy Sum in.
Rabbits feels like a kind of dreamy and olde English folk bucolic song of lust in the forest. They then cover the Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman classic Wheels like it's a cow punk classic to chug along the road with as the ostrich guitar wails away as the boy loses his innocence.
Dead Man's Curve takes us careening along a mountain road towards the Dead Man's Curve as the guitars explode like metal getting crushed in a horrific accident.
Corrina is a really urgent song of lust for the fashionista he wants as the barrelhouse piano battle with the guitars dragging her away from him.
The B-side opens with the frenetic Six legged Machine that could be about a full on scene and what those legs are up too twisted in all directions as they get engulfed by the strings.
Wild Son has the feel of a bordello blues for the 21st century as the pulsating Piano makes that horn blow a really long cool tone.
When I Go Down On You has Frank making the promise to unleash the ecstasy only he can provide all wrapped up in strings this feels rather slinky.
Nonstoperotik is one long slow screw of memories of the lust he once felt for his lost love, as it become an elegy to their mutual debasement.
The album closes with Cinema Star that pays tribute to his other half as she runs off with some other guy, while working on a movie without letting on just what kind of movie it really is.
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