this album is launch-pad, take-off and best part of one of the strangest trips anyone has had the skill or plain nerve to attempt in recent years...

mating rock guitar with electronic dance dance rhythms, japan’s the sun paulo can only be described as a musical roller-coaster, careering through impossibly-convoluted twists, turns and dazzling displays of kinetic virtuosity shot with rampant, crazed energy... although musical reference points aren’t hard to spot, the freewheeling, quite natural way they’re gobbled up and spewed back out at often blinding speed makes for a listening experience quite unlike anything else on the planet...