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Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition
Unlike the doubledisc reissues of Slanted Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, the expanded rerelease of Wowee Zowee subtitled the Sordid Sentinels Edition appeared a year after the album’s tenth anniversary, but since this rerelease maintains the standard of excellence set by the previous reissues, it seems a little churlish to complain about a year’s wait. Likewise, it seems a bit ungrateful to complain that there’s not as much rare or unheard music here as there was on either SE or CR, CR, because the very nature of the sprawling Wowee Zowee meant there wasn’t much left in the vaults; it was structured like a classic messy doublealbum, spilling over with ideas and masterpieces jutting up against irresistible throwaways that would usually be tucked away as Bsides. As such, there aren’t many unheard songs here: two instrumental fragments, “Sordid” and “Sentinel,” the former lasting 28 seconds and the latter clocking in at half that; the shambling, rambling “Stray Fire,” as compressed and thin as a demo, that flows from laconic countryrock to a steady groove not dissimilar to the second half of “Fight This Generation”; and “Soul Food,” an enjoyable goof accurately billed as a “jam session” in the liner notes and not much more than that.
