Consisting of former Ukrainian Eugene Hutz and other expatriate eastern European gypsies, Gogol Bordello is a meeting of minds and styles that occurred in New York City back in the '90s. On this, their fourth outing you get an aggressively quirky mix of gypsy folk filtered into punk style rock and dub with some touches of Italian. Compound that with multi-lingual singing and sheer instrumental prowess you get a strange but always interesting mix of toe-tapping party tunes set to a unique cultural backdrop.

Super Taranta hits the ground running with the full tilt energy of "Ultimate." Hutz almost doesn't give the listener enough time to figure out what they're listening to, but by the second track "Wanderlust King" we get insight into the aspirations of our
frontman who wants to think beyond ethnicity and nationality. "My Strange Uncles From Abroad" shows an intelligent view of America through the eyes of an Eastern European and the closing title track instrumental gives some of the best punk era style musicianship since the Police. An interesting sidenote is that Hutz played the uber-wacky tour-guide opposite Elijah Wood in Liev Schrieber's critically acclaimed film Everything is Illuminated. His band, however, is certainly not for all tastes, but rather a worthy black diamond run for the adventuresome listener.