It may seem like just another album you briefly glimpse upon in the 'world music' section of a magazine/newspaper, but there's simply a lot more to the third album from the Dublin-based Mexican duo. Firstly, it will never be Nandos fodder: it is light years away from being ordinary or harmlessly generic. Secondly, it puts the term 'world music' firmly back in its overly broad and unhelpful box it crept out of. With this product you get a non-vocal rock guitar with Latin rhythms, salsa, flamenco and even jazz.

Tamacun gives you the immediate hit any musical junkie yearns for. Breathtaking energy, speed and accuracy make it the most intensely recorded audio since the (relatively unknown and underrated) jazz-fusion group, the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Dripping with sunshine and radiance all over, it makes the Gypsy Kings look like Prozac-addicted navel gazers.

Diablo Rojo carries on with the summertime fun. Not only does this number have some of the best guitar licks committed to tape, it also has the finest use of an acoustic as a percussive base ever to grace my ears. Strange to even consider that this wall of sound is the product of only two people. Just to tinker with your brain a bit, at one point they have the audacity to take the track into the off-beat rhythms you associate with ska-reggae. Overall this rips your brain in two, making it clear that Santana is a cheesy, predictable hussy and will always be so.

The two guitarists are not always alone on this record, as we get a visit from gypsy violinist Roby Lakotos on Ixtapa. Without a doubt this is one of the album's rockiest numbers. Though it doesn't actually drench itself in feedback and distortion - the only backbeat comes from an acoustic guitar being whacked - it pulses like the musical beast that it is.

Adding to the sonic pleasure, we are blessed an outstanding cover of the hard-rock classic that is Led Zeppelin's Stairway to heaven. In addition, even though the section progression is cut down, it works perfectly. It proves that, if done well, the track is not a sacred cow that should be left alone. I can only speculate whether Rolf Harris was cracked-up to the eyeballs when he tried to a cover one of the best songs ever. I think he was secretly trying to antagonize Satanists, bikers and hard nuts over the globe in a desperate attempt to receive a premium-quality rock fatwa.

After listening to this album I can't help but feel sorry for the producer John Leckie. Whilst he has produced fantastic work from Muse and Radiohead - he did after all produce their seminal The Bends - there seems to be very little he can do with talent like these two. Occasionally, he sticks in a reverse echo or the sound of radio frequency, but that seems to be all. It's not like he can insert a community gospel choir or process their guitars through a broken microwave oven. So, though, it's great that such a high profile producer was brought on board, it doesn't seem particularly needed when their sound is so organic and natural.

If you're very lucky you can attain a golden ticket from this album, allowing you to get a copy of the accompanying DVD. I must admit to telling a bit of an untruth here: you just have to get a limited edition of the album to view the DVD and its veritable feast of extras. Not only does it include interviews, a guitar tutorial and a Mexico picture gallery, you get the added delight of watching Rodrigo y Gabriela perform live. Very simply, it is both of them under a spotlight; but that's all you really need to see. Their talent fills the vacuum created by the lack of choreographed dance routines, stage fireworks and Millie Vanillie-style backing tracks. The White Stripes be warned: you have nothing on these two.

Rodrigo y Gabriela is a concoction so infectious that you literally develop a jittery body condition, making it impossible to keep still. In fact, I'm still getting long-term treatment for what is commonly referred to as tickey-wickey-mickey syndrome. This album is a threat to all artists of the world to unite and get their act together: this simply defines musicianship at its optimum peak. So if there's any musical justice, this eclectic duo will get the recognition they very much deserve.

I'd recommend that you improve you musical palate by opting for a quick painless purchase of this flawless long player.