The Residents
Doctor Dark
Stalwart Californian weirdos create a three-act avant-metal opera inspired by Judas Priest’s notorious 1990 trial for supposedly satanic subliminal messages
It’s often said that The Residents are avant-garde, though they’re avant-gardists for herberts. That, of course, can only be a good thing. The long-running San Francisco-based art-rockers have always been outsider artists making unpredictable and uncompromising noise for the masses, even if the majority of that mass doesn’t know what’s good for it.
That’s apparent on Doctor Dark, which indulges in metal – the most mystifyingly looked down upon of genres. It’s a work that’s unlikely to appeal to anyone whose idea of a good night out is Ubu Roi on unicycles performed in the original French. Technically, it’s an...
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