release date: Mar. 11, 1975
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: Marc Bolan
label: EMI - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Light of Love" - 3. "Precious Star" - 4. "Token of My Love" - 10. "Golden Belt"
10th studio album by T. Rex following one year after Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (Feb. 1974) is the first T. Rex album to be exclusively produced by Bolan himself. Several changes in the line-up appears to have taken place during the recordings of the album, and it remains difficult to make a full account of the official band members, or: officially the band could be described with a new line-up, which includes Bolan's current girlfriend, but that may not reflect the actual members contributing on the album, and in reality this only underlines the fact that T. Tex and its former incarnation basically is Marc Bolan's musical project.
Following little success with his previous album, Bolan wanted full control of the sound of this release, and for the first time in a long time he actually succeeds in exploring new musical territory with a combo of glam rock, boogie, and bold use of blues and especially soul. The end result are slower and more complex compositions, although, the album itself turned out to be his least successful so far, which in retrospect may seem a bit unfair as I do find it bettering the Zinc Alloy... outing, and it's really not far from Bowie's Diamond Dogs from '74 - and then again: It perhaps shows how Bolan now comes up with an approach to new evolving styles but still tries too hard to replicate what others do successfully.
Not recommended.
