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Their masterpiece. An album crafted as a travel record, intended to cover the 168 miles that separate Los Angeles from Joshua Tree park while replaying the songs within three times in a row. Songs for the Deaf is an explosively schizophrenic album, capable of reaching peaks of metal-core madness (the You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire and Six Shooter screamed by Oliveri with his fingers dug into the trachea) and lagoon-like depths of acoustic sweetness (the Mosquito Song marked by a beautiful flamenco guitar arpeggio). Between these two extremes float some of the most beautiful things ever written and performed by QOTSA.