The Sean Malone thing is a coy refrence to the drum program of the last song on his solo album, "Cortlandt". I, quite literally, stole his beat (cuz it's so phat) and used it for Gift-Wrapped Crab.
Serialized rhythm produces, as one would expect, a huge variety of rhythmic durations so I thought it would be interesting to project melodies of constantly changing durations against a drum program that's so regular and funky. Because of some math I did while composing, I made sure everything lines up right.
The song's also kind of a tribute to a musician - Malone - who's influenced my musical life a lot - more than I can or would care to express here.