Double Platinum is a collaborative effort between Enemy from Space’s Kelly Shane and Canard’s Mike Coleman that’s almost impossible to categorize. Take twenty classic song titles from KISS’s lengthy rock dossier, then construct a series of eerie electronic soundscapes, marry the two together in a blissful moment of Dada-esque inspired lunacy, and the result is maybe the strangest “cover” project ever conceived. Appropriately, Electric Lawnchair’s deconstructions of such KISS classics as “Rock & Roll All Night,” “Detroit Rock City,” and “Calling Dr. Love” bear absolutely no sonic resemblance to the originals. But of course that’s precisely the point, and if you’re not into wry, ironic cosmic jokes chances are you’ll be totally baffled and confused about Electric Lawnchair’s agenda on Double Platinum. No instrumentation credits are given on the sleeve, but an assortment of electronics, synthesizers, drum loops and guitars seem to be the primary weapons of choice EL employs to utterly annihilate the KISS canon. One can’t help but wonder what Gene, Paul, Peter and Ace would make of this amusingly twisted “anti-tribute” to what once was “the hottest band in the world.” The pieces themselves are generally brief vignettes of crazed, hyper-kinetic electronica assembled into a reconstituted montage, some of which is very catchy, some of which is simply strange beyond description. The closest parallel to Electric Lawnchair’s aesthetic would perhaps be the abstract “punk concrete” of Dome. Quite jolting, to say the least. One thing is for sure, it took some major balls to conceive and realize a project that some people might simply take as a bad joke done in poor taste. On the contrary, judging from this eccentric disc, Electric Lawnchair may turn out to be the new millennium’s answer to the Bonzo Dog Band.