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As concepts go, it's certainly an ambitious one, and an interesting one on paper at least: one track, each by a different artist (presuming there's no cheating), in "tribute" to each of the 265 Popes in the history of the Catholic church, from St. Peter through John Paul II. Each "song" is 10-15 seconds long and, due to the limitations of the audio CD format, they're grouped 4 to a track. Quite an undertaking. Unfortunately the result is almost entirely unlistenable. This might be forgivable, in the name of "art", if it seemed like some thought and effort had gone into more than a scant handful of these tracks, but such does not seem to be the case. Imagine someone with ADHD in the middle of nowhere flipping around randomly on the AM radio dial at 3 in the morning: it's dominated by static, with some sound collages, snippets of death metal, classical, and spoken word, some horrid juvenile punk and "rap", and lots and lots of white noise. Very few tracks seem to have anything to do with the particular Pope they are purportedly about, or with any Pope at all for that matter, and it seems possible that some of the tracks could be out of order, although who knows. There was one kind of humorous ditty, and a few other pleasing sounds (and the packaging is nice), but if I were to borrow the ratings system from Indiepages I would give this an MTQ of about 4/265. (mike.04.05)
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