With Steve Peregrin Took having been ousted as a result of artistic frictions, Marc appointed a new sideman and marched forward, unfazed. The new duo were: Marc Bolan (22, acoustic and electric guitars, lead vocals, chord organ, bass) and Mickey Finn (22, Moroccan clay drums, backing vocals, tabla, finger cymbals, bass). The introduction of the electric guitar was a first on Tyrannosaurus Rex albums, but it's played in a fairly unobtrusive way, beefing up the sound a tad without losing sight of the trademark slappy-happy-folkie-mystics which have served the group so well thus far. I'm first enraptured by “Organ Blues”, a simple love song where “there's gold in the mountains and a people living in the sea”, framed by a droning organ and lightly slapped hand drums. This is followed by the equally brilliant “By The Light Of A Magical Moon” which fuses the alt-folk with traces of - shock-horror - rock guitar, and comes out unscathed, pointing towards an evolving new sound in Marc's head. This is underlined on the album's closer, “Elemental Child”, which - again, shock-horror - introduces a lilting rock-boogie into the proceedings. The pot's bubbling…
The Jukebox Rebel
22-Dec-2007
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