This album, Beauty, featuring the group's second vocalist Jimmy Goings in all his Blacula glory on the cover, fine-tunes these musical qualities into a singular focused vision. The album plays almost like a Latin/Disco/Glam Rock symphony, with several recurring movements that bleed into one another and tell an epic tale of desire, sin, beauty, and passion which crescendos to a dramatic conclusion - the album closes out with a cover of "Hey Joe," so that might give you an idea how the story ends. The dynamic use of Spanish guitar, pounding dance rhythms, bright, punchy horns and string arrangements, along with gutsy masculine vocals and a sophisticated musical and narrative concept make this album a really fantastic and funky experience.
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