This album is a major departure for Grüvis Malt in many ways. Compositionally, this is the sound of a band giving up. Whereas before every note and inspiration was debated over and eventually abandoned/altered, now anything was acceptable... the more fleeting or amusing the better.
This is probably the closest Grüvis Malt has ever come to honesty. It is a theme album to the fullest (the most "Maximum" you might say), and lends itself to the widest interpretation of any of GM's work.
TRACKLISTING:
1. Prelude
2. Thomas Jackson
3. Monster Hands
4. Since 1968
5. Mr. Smith Goes to Heaven
6. The First Train
7. Marco Polo
8. The American Trilogy (prologue: Method Actors/Domestic Violence)
9. The American Trilogy (scene 2: Deadman's Drop)
10. The American Trilogy (scene 3: Joe Returns from the Front)
11. No Rest for the Wicked Awesome
12. Percy
