1. After you feel comfortable trotting, the next step is Cantering or loping

2. 11 Pretty much where they started -- full of loping bass lines and slithery sax riffs.

3. 12 The rhythms are variously motorik and shambolic, Tom Waits' funkier cuban-heeled grooves and loping hip-hop manouevres.

4. "Focus" is an odd word for the persistently addled, violently hedonistic Mondays, yet Bummed has its own peculiar drug logic, loping into view with the two-stepping "Country Song," a cut so twisted it goes far beyond irony, then settling into the dense