There is nothing sweeter than the soothing sounds of a singing scientist? Opportunely for fans of systematic scientific euphony, Dr. Chordate has come to town, and he's laying 'em down! Science songs that will tear up the charts and bitch-slap our hearts!

I know what you're thinking. You don't want to give up your Chitlin Circuit musical maven Jackie "Moms" Mabley records for a newbie like Dr. Chordate. At first, I felt the same way! It's difficult to modify ingrained belief principles for the sake of what could become a potentially passing fad. Well put on your dancin' clean-room-booties and prepare to become a gladdened specimen via auditory delectation!

As you probably know, Dr. Chordate's name is derived from "friendly" Chordate parasites (members of the Phylum Chordata family). What you will come to realize is that when the good Doctor 'spins a thin,' the effluvia really hits the rotating quad-paddled atmospheric cooling device! Supah cuts from his latest CD, Ain't Nothin' But a Groundhog, are cerebellum and booty shakers. Take the companion biology tribute songs, "A Squirrel's Gotta Do What a Squirrel's Gotta Do," and "Furrier Than Thou," which extol the virtues of being mammalian. Songs of parasites, tapeworms, and thermodynamics celebrate experimental melodiousness.

Doubtless, Chordate's previous album (Parts Is Parts) contains irreproducible classics that will remain infinitesimally indelible upon our cultural psyche. "Fifty Ways to Love Your Liver" and "The Sounds of Science" stand up to repeated testing, and still manage to get the proverbial lotion in motion under any conditions. Club cuts "The Solution Resolution" (hiphop jingo detailing the diffusion of solutes in aqueous solutions) and "The Evolution Revolution" (rap aspects of the evolutionary process) bust mega-molecular moves with aggravated impunity.

Dr. Chordate's like-minded stable of sci-music-power-partners are on the same Notochords label (http://www.tranquility.net/~scimusic/notochordsproducts.html ). They include the Banana Slugs, Cosmic Cabaret with Lynda Williams as The Physics Chanteuse, Physics Pholk, and others, all of which will get your Bunsons burning in the time it takes to rip a litmus.

Keepin' it irrefutable. Yo. Don't run with tweezers.