Despite the PR hype about this being 's first "rock" album, is really another disco album, though more varied in texture, somewhat more subtle in execution, and blessedly rid of those vocoder vocals, though not of the real ones. despite the distinctive presence of , sets the album's dancefloor tone. The rock element is supposedly supplied by on the newly developed Clavitar, where try as he might to articulate like a guitarist, the sound is still that of a mutated synthesizer. is on drums, and guitarist has a field day on his eponymous specialty. [A 2015 CD re-release added six bonus tracks.] ~ Richard S. Ginell