This—the second part of a two-CD album—continues in the spirit of the first volume. Following his major-label run in the '80s and '90s, Julian Cope does whatever he chooses these days. Anyone familiar with his unusual approach to music will feel right at home here as cheap keyboards, bashing drums, unusually literate lyrics (Cope quotes Holden Caulfield during the somewhat catchy "Paradise Mislaid"), and simple acoustic and distorted electric guitars come together for primitive jams. (The credits say Cope played the instruments himself, with the exception of bongos and drums on one track.) The "blues" songs take thigh-slapping folk melodies to speak with pointed messages regarding history free from the pleasantries found in most history books. "They Were on Hard Drugs" makes artful use of one-finger keyboards and the limp rhythm sound they make when you hit the wrong button; then Cope tells the story of world history and drug use as only he can. The 11-minute "Destroy Religion" shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's followed Cope's writings or his improvisatory experiments.