I just want to know why, when sipping my morning cup of tea, the world's many horrors must be further compounded by staring at a cartoon person jamming a bar of soap into the crack of its bahookie.

The lumbering ”A Woman’s Voice” aside, Soap and Water‘s tracks impress — from the sex-drenched ”Freckle Song” to ”Let’s Do Something Wrong,” where his Tom Petty-ish vocals are ...