Album Review: Tenacious D - Post-Apocalypto

Jack Black interrupts his successful acting career to reboot Tenacious D with Kyle Gass, who presumably has had a bit more time on his hands.

It's a concept album about – you guessed it, the end of the world – and confirming that post-apocalyptic futures are now such a cliché, there's no explanation as to what happened, the story just starts there. What happened to the rest of humanity? Who knows or cares? It's just another stage on which Tenacious D can pursue their sexual misadventures, which besides eulogising to the Majesty of Rock is the one thing they do really well - as anyone who's ever heard Fuck Her Gently performed at a wedding reception will tell you.

The obligatory 'fumbling round bathing suit areas' bit comes on early with Making Love. Then the narrative, if you can call it that, pinballs randomly through a cluttered set of well-worn sci-fi tropes. The dedication to meandering incomprehensibility is impressive, right up to the head-scratching end, but then maybe that's not the point. It's all about the LOLs right? Alas, they're spread out fairly thin, like lone nuclear war survivors braving an annihilated wasteland.