The Residents – God In Three Persons

This work is a true masterpiece.
An epic opera of sorts and far too complicated to explain with this here comment.
The themes covered are the opposites in identity, the Yin, The Yang; good & evil, female/male, dark & light of eastern, and Zoroastrian, proportions complimented with western images of the Holy Trinity and the divisions of the individual and the self from the world around and the forms of unification we adopt (Sado-masochism being one of the more perverse forms covered).
Musically, the piece is utterly amazing and has to be listened to as a whole. (The fact that the Residents never make LPs that are NOT concept albums makes it very difficult indeed to ever make 'Best Of' compilations). There is the recurrent leit motif/refrain which appeared on their Double Shot single that was released at the same time but does not appear as part of this work. Also, amongst 4 or 5 of the tracks, guest singer Laurie Amat's layered voice, which sounds almost like a female chorus, warns of us the impending climax: "Something's coming....something's coming....but not real soon" is the first of these. The aforementioned impending climax of the release is the last two tracks and the whole of the LP is designed as a build-up towards those final scenes.
The sounds themselves are always as cutting edge as you would expect from these sonic pioneers, with lush production and expansive synth sounds and, of course, very strange noises are always around the corner somewhere.
I can't really do the release justice with this little comment because it's just so complex and on so many levels. It is so completely full of metaphor and symbolism (even the artwork and symbols representing each of the tracks on the inner sleeve are mind-bogglingly profound) that my words are trivial in comparison.
All I will leave you with is the fact that these guys (or are they female?) are geniuses. Unfathomable respect is due. Amen!!