The debut CD from Bellevue is long overdue, to say the least. The band has been handing out homemade cassettes at its shows since 1992, always threatening to deliver an actual album. Well, it has finally has arrived. Bellevue's infrequent live shows serve up catchy rock tunes filtered through an army of effects pedals. But their recorded work inhabits a dimension of bizarre abstract noodlings and soundscapes that seems the perfect embodiment of the "taking drugs to make music for taking drugs" ethos. The opening track, "Garden Suite," is a soothing, shimmering lullaby that gives you just enough time to wonder whether the album will be a mellow affair before it bleeds into "Where's the Champagne?"--with its hyperactive, skittering programmed drumbeats and synth swells inexplicably mated to a guitar lick straight out of a '70s soundtrack about good love gone bad. A thumping guitar/piano riff slowly fades in after a few minutes, and the album finally gets down to rocking with "Revolution 99." This bizarre trilogy sets a dark mood--one that is dispersed with the bubblegum 'XPN-ish "Love and Disaster." It's what Yes would have sounded like if they'd been stuck on an island with the guys from Ween, tons of drugs and recording equipment, and no one to say, "Stop! You're going too far, man!" Fortunately, the moments that make you go, "Wow! That's really cool" are just as numerous as the ones that beg the question, What the hell were they on? ***