Though the band is talented, the dual guitar work is unique in it's floating harmonies playing underneath a kick stomp drum beat. There are strong organ sounds ten times ore powerful than anything Jon Lord came up with best heard on Spanish Feeling with the quick organ vamps wooshing with menace alongside the track's thunderous drums. The song features even some nice rootsy acoustic guitar, heavenly harmonies and cowbell all pieced together on the most dynamic record I've heard proving dynamics are something that can't be taught; these guys have it while more famous bands don't.
Also of note is anti- drug song, Cocaine with it's jolly little morality tale dressed in child like rhymes over a bed of striking lightning speed, flamenco guitar work and funky hand claps. It's chorus could have been ripped of for the far more successful version played by Eric Clapton. The tack is deceptive and soon picks up tempo with a gloriously demented Elizabethan organ part playing circles around your head before the charged hard rock guitar & drums re enter for a Doors like rave up of drama proving they were experts at ratcheting tension even if they stole form many sources over the course of this album. In fact, I change my mind, Cocaine is the gem of this album, just narrowly beating Spanish Feeling with it's eclecticism and managing to sound like Zeppelin, the Doors and Yes all in one; Well Done!
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