On the Claypool Lennon Delirium’s debut album Monolith of Phobos, the freak-psych pairing was surprisingly copacetic. Claypool’s skewed pop sensibilities were balanced out by Lennon’s own burgeoning bizarro oeuvre, and Lennon seemed to be willing to go down the trippy rabbit hole with Claypool’s wormhole wonders. On sophomore record South of Reality, the pair continues their merry pranksterisms, deconstructing progressive-rock, psych and pop parameters with virtuosic interplay and wide-eyed, visionary pieces like “Boriska,” and “Easily Charmed By Fools.” It’s a match made in nard-trippin’ heaven that ought to go well with Jim James’ own strange rock tidings. by Ryan J. Prado