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Senor Boombox

Grade:

B

According to the Disco Biscuits' official Web site, once this new album is purchased the listener should "run home, roll an extremely fat joint and kick back as you take a stroll down studio lane."

Sounds good, but what about the music? Does it really matter after all that?

Well, the money spent on the new disc should accommodate the jam band fans' ears. The band's sound is pretty distinctive. It's like a mish- mash of hip-hop, guitar breaks a la Phish, jazz jams and String Cheese.

The opener "Hope" is kind of a lazy, slow riffing Spanish-influenced pace setter. "Floodlights" is a hip-hop tune the way only a jam band could play it.

Of the Biscuits' three vocalists, thankfully just one, Jon Gutwillig, attempts a Bono imitation on "Jigsaw Earth." Further down the track listing and the prerequisite joint, one can envision the hemp- and B.O.- reeking bodies grooving to the gospel stylings of "The Tunnel" and the heavy riffs of "Triumph" at a Biscuits live set.

Finally, after all the ganja-goo-balls have been consumed by closing number "Hope II," the corduroy-and dread-locked masses will be hitting repeat, if only because they're too lazy to get up and change discs. Overall, a surprisingly impressive third outing from the Biscuits, who will be at the Rialto Theatre Oct. 2 to appease all the teeth-grinding Phish heads awaiting the second coming.