Reviewed by Mike Sembos

Ronnie Neuhauser's Styrocultural Antidote, Ballet of the Elephant. For fans of Zappa, this prog-tastic record is angular and experimental, with curveballs aplenty and a shameless sense of humor. It's completely instrumental, save for one sentence In "Fe Fi Fo What the Fum?" and the final track, "New Day and Movement," which features a positive rap of sorts, along the lines of Rage Against the Machine but less angry. Sometimes

Styrocultural Antidote sounds like a cleaner version of Hüsker Dü. Sometimes it's like an '80s guitar virtuoso-type — say Joe Satriani or Eddie Van Halen — is soloing over a late '70s prog band. Sometimes it sounds like funky free jazz. The changes within each track are all so abrupt and sharp-edged that the album could probably be played from start to finish with no breaks between songs with no ill-effects.