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As "Intertiatic E.S.P."**** shrieks out of the speakers from second one, Robert Plant sounds restrained by comparison. "Roulette Dares"**** alternates an ensemble of jackhammers with atmospheric sections; I don't know what the heck "Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed" means, but if you can get a whole theater singing this along with you, my hat's off to you. Most of the album follows this general pattern, until the creepy Latin ballad "Televators" settles in for a slow, deliberate groove. After this break "Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt"**** wastes no time with its riff attack capped with a frighteningly precise passage of envelope-filtered guitar noise, perfectly contrasting the jazzy Santana-jam that follows, though Rodreguez-Lopez delivers lines that are both mind-bending and memorable, unlike the previously-mentioned god of adult contemporary Latin rock.
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