Big Planet Scary Planet

For his band’s second album for Creation, Pat Fish assayed a bit of hip-hop flow on “Burglar of Love.” The essential Butcherness (Butchery?) remains, his winning voice and wry humor remaining the center even as samples emerge on various songs like “Line of Death” (in that case along with the spaghetti western horn arrangements, of course). The brisk energy of “The Word I Was Looking For” and the snarky character study of “Bicycle Kid” are other standouts. Great line, via “Nightmare Being”: “I know I look like Altamont/And smell like Richard Nixon.”