Oh my is this album
ridiculous. If the cover didn't already tip you off about that, just listen to the 2-minute introduction with such spoken lyrics as "Deep beneath an ancient shadow/...Dwelt the grinning Cyclopean pagan/Screaming destruction in sheer dazzling raiment/A thunderbolt master a 'lectronic savior/A gold galactic raver, the Futuristic Dragon." Right on! I always had avoided the late-period T. Rex albums since I wasn't too keen on the direction they started taking post-
The Slider. Turns out that was a mistake! Holy crap, "Jupiter Liar" is so freaking good, just a classic-sounding T. Rex tune I had no idea existed until now. For a guy with a limited musical palate, Marc Bolan was certainly able to get a lot of mileage out of what he was able to do well. That's not to say there isn't much experimentation, there is a noticeable soul music influence here, but it's all handled quite skillfully. And most of the time it
rocks, as most good T. Rex should. A lot of "oh yeah"s and "yeah yeah"s and "do it to me baby"s and whatnot throughout. Not the album I would recommend as an introduction to the art of T. Rex (
Electric Warrior is still the best, sorry). But as an advanced studies course it gets an A.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7bxgqrql5oDIr4SVFB1bYN
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