As with any Steve Vai music, you come to expect excellent guitar work, and the songs on 'Alien Love Secrets', all instrumentals, do just that. Opener 'Bad Horsie' was derived from a riff played by Vai during the final scene of the 1986 film 'Crossroads'. 'Juice' is guitar mania, fast rhythms and burning guitar solos scream throughout this song, giving it a near frenzied, but controlled energy. 'Die to Live' is guitar heaven and on 'Boy from Seattle' it's likely that Vai makes a bow to his colleague Jimi Hendrix. Like the previous song 'Ya-Yo Gakk' is flavored with a bluesy texture. As always there are some aggressive Zappa like tunes like in 'Kill the Guy With The Ball.' And as last 'Tender Surrender' demonstrates how expressive a guitar can be, from the jazzy, soulful and bluesy octaves.