La porte de l'univers #[nn]

From Fluide Glacial and creator Goossens comes this delightfully absurd album whose cover says it all: two hard-hatted workmen in overalls are busily — and somewhat chaotically — installing an ordinary wooden door that floats amid a star-filled cosmos, tools and a paint pot scattered around them, while a vast, ghostly divine figure looms in the blue heavens above. The collision of the mundane (a routine door-fitting job) with the cosmic (the literal threshold of the universe, watched over by a towering celestial presence) is exactly the kind of deadpan philosophical comedy Fluide Glacial does so well. If you enjoy humor that finds the very small rubbing up against the impossibly grand, La Porte de l'Univers looks like a thoroughly entertaining ride.