For George Harrison, a last testament to God and guitars.(Chicago Tribune)

"Brainwashed," the album George Harrison was working on when he died of cancer last year, is out Tuesday, a last will and musical testament from the former Beatles guitarist.

"Sometimes I feel like I'm on the wrong planet," Harrison says in an accompanying video distributed to the media by his record company, Capitol Records. "Brainwashed" is Harrison's final attempt to make sense of that planet. By album's end, he sounds relieved to be departing it.

What he leaves behind are 12 songs that don't sound quite like he had hoped. The guitarist entrusted the album's completion to his son, Dhani, and producer Jeff Lynne. He instructed them that he wanted the songs and guitar playing to be naked _ "kind of like demos," according to …