Stephan Eicher My Place CD - Import

, is now pursuing a college degree in Houston while his teen collaborators -- Jacqueline Garcia and Jillian Gomez -- and continue their studies in Alice.

As "Fly Exodus Fly" demonstrates, CDD has not lost any of the idiosyncratic flavor that the trio demonstrated on its last full-length release,"We Got Sunshine." Rather, CDD has managed to up the ante on experimentalism by expanding their electronic adventures and the band is all the better for their efforts.

Take the track "Yo-Yo." It's a delightfully odd piece of synth-driven atonal pop that bounces across a deliberately unsettling soundscape reminiscent of Pere Ubu that is the yang to the yin of the creepy and noisy opener, "Dogs."From there, the disc hums along quite eccentrically -- as is the way of the Duck -- that is until, we get to "Manipulated X." A solo turn of sorts by Norberto Gomez Jr.

, 'X' is a bitter hate-soaked diatribe directed at a former lover that features little in the way of instrumentation save a put-upon acoustic struggling to stay in tune. Remarkably, "Manipulated X" is perhaps the one moment of clarity that trad pop fans might connect with.

That's not to say the other tracks are any less interesting. Songs like "Mr. Peanut" and "Orange Robot" are defined by the disarming and dispassionate charm of Jillian Gomez's vocals. On "The Muck", Jacqueline takes a rare vocal turn on an accidental jazz number that spits more punk rock tude than a dozen burly tattooed dudes swilling Lone Star by the bar at a Social Distortion show.