VIVABEAT—Party in the War Zone (Charisma):: These milkshakes listened to Roxy Music somewhere along the L.A. fault line, and they’re primed to siphon ol’ Papa Doc Ferry back to us now, in 10 real synthesizer pump & dunk increments, about as elegant as the stuff comes. Pop on the road back from the squirtingflower abyss of Devolution, as it were. Just a tad/ less icy beat than those big beezles in the Cars, who took their driver training offa Bryan F., too.

I hereby nominate the enclosed Vivabeat to play the Cars in the authorized film biography of samejike if Mr. Subaru Ocasek won’t put down his crossword puzzle lexicons and please crawl out his art-deco window when they’re ready to shoot. B minus. R.R.