It’s not surprising that Odoms Odometer—birth name Adam Bourgeois, better known as the hand and the voice of Lil’ Doogie, New Orleans’ most beloved puppet since Mr. Bingle—comes off on his debut solo disc much as he did with last year’s Doogie EP, Thoughts Of My Mind. Vocally, that is: lyrically, he now splits the difference between Doog and their producer-in-common, Rami “Ballzack” Sharkey. Having lost the extra level of absurdity brought to him by his handwarmer, Odoms apparently feels free to be a little less hard, resulting in a stance equidistant between Doogie’s street cred and Ballzack’s absurdist nerd wodie act. If Ballzack is the West Bank’s answer to Eminem, Odoms is its ODB.

This makes for an electrobounce experience unlike any other, especially given his predilection for retrofuturist kitsch, evident in titles like “Keeping Up with the Jetsons” (one of a handful of tracks produced by ex-White Zombie fugitive guitarist J. Yuenger) and “Reynolds Rap,” which is definitely the crunkest track you’ll ever hear about possibly being Burt Reynolds’ bastard child. If you’ve listened to Thoughts of My Mind too much, it might be weird to hear Doogie’s flow coming out of Odoms’ mouth on tracks like “Harvey Tunnel Syndrome,” where his space-thug soldier gets the death penalty and then comes back like Jesus. But you’ll get used to it, thanks to Ballzack’s beats and the ever-more-impressive flow of Bourgeois, still getting more mileage out of parody than most local rappers do out of reality.

—Rob Fontenot, Jr.