Recorded on tour, on an iPad, this low-key album (streaming for free on the band's website) is the sound of Damon Albarn blowing trees and tweaking apps as the American outback rolls by his bus window. Featuring songs like "Shy-Town" and "Seattle Yodel," it's a wistfully spaced-out, subtly cheeky spin on the road-trip epic: Easy Rider via Tron. Albarn isn't trying to say much, but The Fall is pretty consistent, from the country-radio sampling dub of "The Parish of Space Dust" to the Rust Belt planet-rock of "Detroit." The capper is "Bobby in Phoenix," an interstellar-blues sermon from soul great Bobby Womack: Delta guitars and sad, sweet blips and beeps demonstrate that iPads can have feelings too.

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.