Boldly going where no surf-rock band has gone before, Windy City instrumental icons, The Breakers released a new CD in 2020 entitled Voodoo Treatment. An excellent follow-up to the band’s 2019 album, Transmissions From A Hornet-Free Environment, the 40-minute, 14-track Voodoo Treatment is another fine showcase for The Breakers, the Chicago-based band consisting of lead guitarist Jim Abrahams (guitars, effects, bass), Jayson Slator (bass) and Marc Lockett (drums). With one hard-hitting instrumental track after the next, Voodoo Treatment also benefits from adding musicians performing in a range of instruments, while production by Craig Williams keeps the studio sound raging in the right directions. A veritable sonic hurricane, The Breakers create instrumental rock with a nod to traditional surf, yet there’s also a more aggressive dimension to the band's sound that would appeal to psychedelic and garage-rock fans, even those old enough to remember the electrifying rock guitar sounds of the late 1960s. Hats off to Jim Abrahams for also curating and releasing another CD, entitled Chicago Surf Rally. A charity album for the Illinois COVID-19 Response Fund, the 79-minute, 27-track compilation features selections from nine bands contributing a range of music. Jim’s band The Breakers are featured with three cuts here, along with more surf-rock sounds by instro bands such as Alewife, Spies Who Surf, The Cocktail Preachers, while all the bands featured on Chicago Surf Rally summon up their best 1960s-era Shadows / Ventures sounds. On Voodoo Treatment, guitarist / composer Jim Abrahams takes the Breakers sound  to new heights. Hard to miss with that stunning CD cover art, Voodoo Treatment, and in fact all of the Breakers albums, will be of interest to surf-rock fans world-wide.