Continuum's pocket-sized 33 1/3 series has been praised by everybody from the New York Times to Vice Magazine and consistently features some of the top music critics around. In this volume (#56), the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle goes experimental and hears Black Sabbath's classic third album "through the ears of Roger Painter, a young adult locked in a southern California adolescent psychiatric center in 1985." It's not your typical 33 1/3, but a great read nonetheless. 101 pages.

reviewed by Larri Byrd