Puscifer

While Puscifer’s 2007 debut features different songs and ideas that singer Maynard James Keenan had accumulated for over a decade, Conditions of My Parole and the just-released Money Shot serve as more cohesive records that represented the band’s transformation into a “full-fledged, Vaudevillian touring troupe.” “Everything about Puscifer presents some juxtaposition between incredibly meaningful seriousness and hilarity,” says singer Carina Round in a phone interview. “The more Maynard [Keenan] finds the connection between those two, the more comfortable he feels in a way. He’s also contrarian. His satisfaction comes from putting things together that seemingly don’t belong together. It’s not in a way that it’s completely confused and avant-garde. It’s not Dali or anything, but there’s a connection between the sensitivity and the thing that makes you laugh for ten minutes and you don’t know why.” (Niesel)