From 1974 through 1980, was on a tear no one, including or , could equal. While the machine began to run out of steam by 1978 -- with the exception of the -- kept churning out the weird, kinky well into the era of . , his last fine record for quite awhile, had all the trademarks in place: the choppy, heavily reverbed and wah-wahed guitar that had made a sensation, the sci-fi keyboards, the handclap that and ripped off for , the expandable horn section that intertwined with the guitar riffs, and the punched up basic basslines that kept the a simple but ultimately moving thing. It's true that some of the crazy lyrics that graced had given way to chanted cliches by this time, but it hardly mattered since was making music for discos and clubs, and not for radio play any longer. He got hip to the fact that if you wanted to break a record you had to get a club DJ to play the hell out of it. Here, the standouts are the truly weird and wonderful and the hilarious -- and extremely funky -- This may have been the last real winner in 's catalog for a long time, but there is plenty of magic still present in these grooves. [ 's 2006 reissue of features two previously unreleased bonus tracks.] ~ Thom Jurek