T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971) [MFSL 2020] SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/96kHz

Electric Warrior is a 1971 album by Marc Bolan’s band T. Rex, their sixth since their debut as Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1968, and their second under the name T. Rex. The album marked a turning point in the band’s sound, dispensing with the folk-oriented music of the group’s previous albums and pioneering a flamboyant, pop-friendly take on electric rock and roll known as glam rock. The album reached number 1 on the UK charts and became the best selling album of 1971. Electric Warrior has since received acclaim as a pivotal release of the glam rock movement.

Although it features the beautiful recorder of Leslie Penny and the Chieftains’ Paddy Maloney playing the uilean pipe, Ommadawn didn’t gain Mike Oldfield the success he was looking for – The album was released in the same year as the David Bedford-arranged Orchestral Tubular Bells and nine months after Oldfield picked up a Grammy award for the original Tubular Bells album – The most pleasing attribute of Ommadawn is its incorporation of both African and Irish music in its symphonic rock & roll mainframe – Boosted by a hearty amount of different horns, piano, cello, trumpet, and synthesizer, the album has its moments of rising action, but the whole of Ommadawn fails to keep its lovely segments around long enough, and there are some rather lengthy instances that include bland runs of unvaried music – Another plus is Oldfield’s use of a choir, giving the album a soft, humanistic feel when contrasted against the keyboards or synthesizer – While it does include flashes of Mike Oldfield’s brilliance, the entire album may seem a little anticlimactic when compared to some of his other releases.

Tracklist:

01. Mambo Sun
02. Cosmic Dancer
03. Jeepster
04. Monolith
05. Lean Woman Blues
06. Bang A Gong (Get It On)
07. Planet Queen
08. Girl
09. The Motivator
10. Life’s A Gas
11. Rip Off

Mastered by Shawn R. Britton, Assisted by Krieg Wunderlich at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.

SACD ISO

mqs.link_T.RexElectricWarrir1971MFSL2020SACDIS.part1.rar
mqs.link_T.RexElectricWarrir1971MFSL2020SACDIS.part2.rar

FLAC 24bit/96kHz

mqs.link_T.RexElectricWarrir1971MFSL2020FLAC2496.part1.rar
mqs.link_T.RexElectricWarrir1971MFSL2020FLAC2496.part2.rar