In true Devo-style, we don't get a new Devo-album. Instead a reunion album of the strange, probably fictional surf band The Wipeouters, that Mark Mothersbaugh claims to have been in together with the rest of the Devo core. Which might be just as well. This is a light-hearted, wacky record to enjoy independently of the group's previous recordings. The title pretty much says it all. Twangy guitars and fast going are the main rules. Vocals disrupt the instrumental surf concept on a few tracks, otherwise this is more or less the soundtrack of life on some weird beach in a place called "Goon Island".
Included is the title theme to an animated children's show called "Rocket Power", one of the many commissioned television, movie and computer game works that Mothersbaugh has been working on since the demise of Devo. It's a relief to see some people really never grow up.
and called themselves DOVE The Band of Love?? Mark and Co.= pure crazy conceptualists...I'll have to keep my ears open. Neil Young said that when he heard them that he was polluted by their sounds and ideas! There's a scene in the Rust Never Sleeps film where the show is interupted by a guy coming down from the lights wearing one of those orange DEVO jumpsuits....if it's good enough for Neil, it's good enough for me! 
Yes, records!
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