Starting off with just the right measure of sarcasm, Cats quickly explains the "Ark" in the title of this album; but where's the Noise? you might ask. Oh, it's just around the bend mate, and do mind the gap. The mighty Elephants then follows, providing a schizoid turn of the screw which pretty much sets the rules of the game from this point onward. Sometimes noise will be harnessed and shaped into striking little musical vignettes, sometimes it will run loose and chew the scenery; the tone will flicker between the serious abstract, the oddball, and the seriously deranged. Many strange new colors will bleed all over the place, and some imaginative steps and missteps into the unknown will take place. All in all, this is a wild animal kingdom here, far more surreal than your average petting zoo.
