AIDED BY ALEX NEWPORT'S CLEAN, CONFIDENT PRODUCTION, THIS RECORD CRAMS 23 SONGS INTO JUST AROUND THE SAME AMOUNT OF MINUTES -- PILING UNPREDICTABLE, SPLIT-SECOND CHANGES, BLASTS OF 2-SECOND-LONG SPACE-RIFFS, AND LUPINE SCREAMS ONTO SPAZZED-OUT KEYBOARDS THAT SOUND TOTALLY INHUMAN AND STRANGELY ORGANIC. IT'S NERVY AND SINUOUS AND, ABOVE ALL ELSE, UNCOMFORTABLY APOCALYPTIC -- WHICH MAKES EVEN MORE SENSE NOW, CONSIDERING THE TEMPER OF THE TIMES WHEN IT WAS RECORDED. WELCOME TO THE BEGINNING OF THE END. HERE'S YOUR SOUNDTRACK.