Carnival Detournement (Cuneiform, 2001) is the first album recorded by a full band. Vermilion Hue OVer Lake Lausanne is their (conceptual) tour de force, encompassing reggae steps, King Crimson-ian passages and a touch of Djam Karet's twisted heavy metal. The other prominent element of their music is classical: What Makes You Think starts with a "fauve" fanfare worthy of Stravinsky that slowly decomposes in dissonant cacophony.
Theirs is progressive-rock for the new century, contaminated by countless rhythms and accents. Furthermore, the compositions are dismembered in a methodically illogal manner. The core of Jeanne-Marie is a romantic folk songs, although the rhythm and the clarinet/accordion arrangement drag it through voodoo swamps, blues plantations and jazz lofts. Vang Vang is an even crazier motif, waltzing away in a frenzy through a soundscape of found noises. The Turn Of Events toys with fair and circus music.
Half of the pieces don't make it to three minutes, and it is a pity. The album does not have the cohesive feeling that would come from longer and more complex compositions.

The ambitions of Dave Wiley and Jon Stubbs were even more obvious on The Public Execution of Mister Personality (2006), that dispensed with the nuances and grounded the pieces more firmily in the tradition of the Canterbury school and Frank Zappa, plus hints of jazz, world and classical music, via an arsenal of rock, jazz and classical instruments (accordion, organ, bells, harmonium, guitarron, piano, zither, violin, ukulele, bass, guitar, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, flute, mandolin, banjo, marimba and drums).
Tracks: Race Against Time, "162", We Unearth the Lost Book of Mister Personality and Its Consequences, Reddy 4 Luv, The Quasdi Day Room Ceremonial Quadrille, Love Theme from "All Clytemnestra on the Western Front", Oye Comatose, Litost, La Sacre D'Merde, The Quasi Day Room Ceremonial Tango, The Fairytale in Reverse, Phoenix, It Was Only a Dream. The accompanying CD, Quasi Day Room, documents a live performance.

Hamster Theatre e' il progetto strumentale del polistrumentista Dave Willey, part-time nei Thinking Plague. Hamster Theatre (1995) presenta la sua variante di progressive-rock. Il trombonista jazz Jon Stubbs lo raggiunse per il live Siege On Hamburger City (1998). Carnival Detournement (Cuneiform, 2001) e' il primo album registrato da un'intera band. Vermilion Hue OVer Lake Lausanne e' il loro (concettuale) tour de force, comprendente passi reggae, passaggi alla King Crimson e un tocco di heavy metal contorto alla Djam Karet. L'altro elemento base della loro musica e' quello classico: What Makes You Think inizia con una fanfara "fauve" degna di Stravinsky che si decompone lentamente in cacofonia dissonante.

Il loro e' il progressive-rock per il nuovo secolo, contaminato da innumerevoli ritmi e accenti. Inoltre, le composizioni sono smembrate in un modo metodicamente illogico. Il nocciolo di Jeanne-Marie e' rappresentanto da romantiche canzoni folk benche' il ritmo e l'arrangiamento clarinetto/fisarmonica percorra paludi voodoo, piantagioni blues e soffitte jazz. Vang Vang e' un pezzo ancor piu' folle, impeto in un panorama musicale rumoroso. The Turn Of Events gioca con musica da fiera e circo. Meta' dei pezzi non raggiungono purtroppo i tre minuti. L'album manca della coesione che verrebbe da composizioni piu' lunghe e complesse.

Le ambizioni di Dave Wiley e Jon Stubbs furono persin piu' palesi in The Public Execution of Mister Personality (2006), piu' diretto e nella tradizione della scuola di Canterbury e Frank Zappa, oltre a cenni di jazz, world music e classica, resi tramite un arsenale di rock, jazz e strumenti classici (fisarmonica, organo, campane, armonium, guitarron, piano, cetra tirolese, violino, ukulele, basso, chitarra, trombone, sax, clarinetto, flauto, mandolino, banjo, marimba e batteria). Pezzi: Race Against Time, "162", We Unearth the Lost Book of Mister Personality and Its Consequences, Reddy 4 Luv, The Quasdi Day Room Ceremonial Quadrille, Love Theme from "All Clytemnestra on the Western Front", Oye Comatose, Litost, La Sacre D'Merde, The Quasi Day Room Ceremonial Tango, The Fairytale in Reverse, Phoenix, It Was Only a Dream. Il CD allegato, Quasi Day Room, documenta una performance live.