"The Slider ", was his most ambitious and risky work, which on top of that always had the difficult ballot of overcoming that great "Electric Warrior". The album was published in the summer of 1972 and was recorded in the Parisian Château d'Hérouville studios to avoid the always dangerous and undaunted British Treasury.
An exciting, sexual and erotic album, which opens with "Metal Guru" and its successful acoustic rhythm section and powerful, deep bass, along with Bolan's soft and sweet voice, forming an interesting mix between pop and glam rock, with catchy choruses. Easy and digestible theme to go fully into the album. "Mystic Lady" is sinuous and tempting, a perfect example of the elegant eroticism that I was talking about before and that this album awakens. With Marc singing in a suggestive way to attract the females accompanied - again - by the excellent section provided by the muscular bass and the soft and beautiful acoustics that play perfectly with the occasional horn section and the perfect choirs of the band.
"Rock On" and its simple base of easy electrics, the ubiquitous bass and acoustic guitar, always there, to a greater or lesser extent and whose presence on this occasion is more blurred, with a great solo by Bolan that you will surely love, lost among so much delicacy. "The Slider" and its simple guitar riff and with Marc leaving the seduction for a moment to sing in a more earthly way, even imposing low voices in the song.
"Baby Boomerang" is a great ironic boogie boogie, with great backing vocals, Bolan's sensual and simple guitar and bass, more crouched than in previous songs, but carrying the weight of the theme with mastery, like the drums, with their rhythms and singles, accompanying the song to perfection and serving as a bridge for "Spaceball Ricochet", which surely recalls the group's early days. Marc's sweet and brittle voice along with a rhythmic base that seems to be absorbed by Bolan's gasps give name and surname to one of the songs of "glam-rock" par excellence. But not everything in T.Rex is elegance, simple melodies and Bolan's voice, they also know how to be more aggressive, or else take a listen to "Buick Makane", with an absolutely brutal riff, which at first reminds "Children Of The Revolution ". Marc's voice deserves a separate chapter, always tempting but this time more intense, twinning with the spectacular orchestra and the delicate guitar picks of one of the kings of glam, an apotheosis ending does the rest.
"Telegram Sam" with another spectacular riff and another devastating bass on a more rhythmic theme, a kind of boogie twinned with "Bang a Gong" (Get It On ", from his previous album, Electric Warrior) The orchestra is perfect, with tempting moments whose potency increases and with distant echoes of superficial and contained sweetness when it moves away.
Sugary guitar rays accompanied by devastating rhythmic bases introduce us to "Rabbit Fighter" and its epic chorus rocked by the unforgettable string section. We travel to "Baby Strange" and its hardest rock riff and catchy beat. A song that will make you want to go out dancing, wisely combining hard music with the group's hallmarks: Bolan's picks lost in the immensity of an ocean of flavors and textures, which appear here without you expecting it, impregnating one of the best songs on the album with lights, with Bolan winking to lure you into the frenzy of merriment, happiness, lipstick and mascara that is this song and this album. "Ballroom Of Mars" and Chariot Choogle "drop the bar a little bit when compared to this kind of continuous seduction that is the album." Main Man "is made for you to sing to your girlfriend or the girl you like and conquer her; great choruses that support the voice of the glam dandy.
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