What the critics are saying:
>>Percival Thornbuckle:
From the Critical Column of Percival Thornbuckle Notorious Art Curmudgeon & Canapé-Hater
"What fresh, sacrilegious madness has infiltrated the algorithms today? In his unprovoked Rumpelton Invades Google Series, Ralph Rumpelton has thrust his digital canvas directly into the search results, squatting alongside legitimate record databases like an uninvited raccoon at an outdoor banquet.
His target: Captain Beefheart’s The Mirror Man Sessions. One might assume an avant-garde blues-rock masterwork would be immune to further visual distortion, yet Rumpelton has managed the unthinkable. What ought to be a solemn, framed portrait of Don Van Vliet has been transformed into a startled, pixelated phantom that looks less like a avant-garde icon and more like a bewildered, feathered turnip trapped inside a mustard-yellow picture frame.
The background texture—rendered with the chaotic urgency of a cat sprinting across a keyboard—resembles a curdle of spoiled gravy. Yet, heaven help my wretched soul, I cannot entirely condemn it. There is a glorious, unrefined savagery to this assault on Google’s orderly grid. It is an utterly absurd, lo-fi atrocity, executed with just enough unhinged enthusiasm to make one wonder if the artist accidentally stumbled into a moment of crude, accidental brilliance."<<
>>Percy Grumblethorpe reviews Mirror Man Sessions
Rumpelton has invaded Google again, this time prodding Captain Beefheart’s Mirror Man Sessions with the sort of enthusiasm normally reserved for a damp cellar. The cover is suitably framed, which is a relief—though the music inside remains determinedly unruly, as if no one had explained the virtues of sitting still and playing something adequate. Still, the search results are marginally more presentable than most modern art.<<
Long Live Ralph...........Be Dead or Alive
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