The 23nd album from this artist from USA.
Frank Zappa did the guitars and vocals here.
Frank Zappa had help from some guests who provided drums, percussion, bass, guitars, woodwinds, keyboards, harmonica and vocals.
Frank Zappa had reached his commercial and creative top on Sheik Yerbouti and the Joe Garage albums. Those albums was the end of his creativity. The remaining albums was some more or less smart recreations of old ideas.
You Are What You Is is seventy minutes of rap and vocals on the top of some funk, jazzy pop and doo wop. A lot of the spoken words and vocals is what is these days known as rap music.
The lyrics is best forgotten and best ignored. He lived his life in a bubble, his own world and that shows in the lyrics. His vocals is good.
There are some sporadic guitar solos and instrumental parts here. There is not enough of them as the instruments are drowed out by the vocals and the rap.
The result is a decent to good album. It is not an album I would recommend in this day and age.
2.5 points
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