The strangest tape in any collection, absurdist troupe Night Viking’s latest offers 42 jumbled tracks of warped sample collages, incoherent freak folk, and out-of-key jams on unpracticed instruments. Highlights from the Alabama side include shambolic fife-n-drum dirge “No Such Thing as Outer Space” and Zappa-gone-wrong clip “Celestial Flesh.” Burrito Arena‘s epic mishmash of anti-songs is impressive only by sheer volume.

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This article appears in May 22 • 2015.

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