ere's the concept: take experimental electronic artist Christopher Willits, who creates delicate music with computers and guitars; add the blistering bricolage of cut-up weirdness that is Miguel Depedro (Kid606); throw in drummer Zach Hill of ultra-weird Hella and then make them stay up all night in a studio in San Francisco, have them noodle around and release the results. That's Flössin.

Personally, when I learned about Lead Singer, this weird, micro super-group's first release, I had my doubts. The artists' styles are so radically different from one another that I really couldn’t see an electronic jam session working on any but the most irksome level. So even before I listened to this work, I doubted it. I doubted that it could be interesting enough to listen to repeatedly and I doubted it could fuse together these three artists' distinctive talents.

The music itself sounds like Pere Ubu with digital fuzz. There's a circular feel to just about every sound here, from the monstrous frenzy of Hill's drumming to the elongated, Sonic Youth-like guitar adventures to the flubby noise and electronic sprays that function as microscopic traces of Depedro's usual noise frenzies. The songs all connect together, making the whole work seem like one constant track, even if the work is actually split up into thirteen individual tracks (all untitled—or, rather, with the listed titles on the CD's back cover all crossed out, like they were embarrassing items in GW Bush's military records). Some of the work on here is very interesting, like a sudden groove that pops out of a long wash of feedback or a cool beat that appears just when the music seems to be losing control of itself. But those moments are rare; the work as a whole leaves me uninspired and a bit bored.

This is, in short, not a great listening experience; it is, rather, a good jam session. The problem with jam sessions is that they are, by definition, designed for the musicians, not the audience. I'm sure Lead Singer was a lot of fun to create, as these artists were able to extend their musical horizons into new and (potentially) interesting directions. Perhaps on a future release those interesting directions will lead to someplace a bit more memorable. I hope so.