Zinc Alloy – T REX**

Venus Loon/Sound Pit/Explosive Mouth/Galaxy/Change/Nameless Wildness/Teenage Dream/Liquid Gang/ Carsmile Smith & The Old One/You Got To Jive To Stay Alive/Spanish Midnight/Interstellar Soul/Painless Persuasion V The Meathawk Immacula /The Avengers (Superbad)/The Leopards Featuring Gardania & The Mighty Slug

By the time of the release of Zinc Alloy the T. Rex mania of a few years earlier had well and truly abated. The glam rock sound now has a soul dimension. Includes the UK No. 13 hit single Teenage Dream. (UK:12)

“This was the beginning of the end for Bolan really, There are some good songs (mostly on side one), and he quite successfully adds a bit of funk to his sound in places. But a lot of the material is definitely patchy.”

“Teenage Dream is the best thing here by a mile, a reminder of how great Bolan's songs and Tony Visconti's production could be together.”

“This is a disappointing compared with the earlier glory of Bolan. There are a few good songs, but the rest are just mediocre, non-memorable material. The unique T. Rex sound is here though, it's like a futuristic glam-rock gospel.”

“This was really the point for T. Rex where they went from being a solid glam group to a

“Zinc Alloy finds Marc Bolan incorporating heaps of soul influence, including some truly fine backing singers, into his glam sound to produce a fresh and fascinating mash-up which was rejected at the time, but hasn't really been embraced now, although I think it is wonderful.”

“Zinc Alloy is the strangest release yet from the glitter-rock fairy, an often uncomfortable and chaotic collection that radiates a nasty jitter. Bolan's idea of the new T-Rex sound was some sort of bubblegum-soul hybrid.”

“My biggest problem with Zinc Alloy is the abominable backing vocals, the principal offender being Bolan's girlfriend Gloria Jones. Not unlike the caterwauling of a banshee, they are sometimes so shrill as to drown out the lead vocal entirely.”

“Marc’s star was still in free fall mode when this came out. His glory days appeared to be behind him and his muse seems to have all but deserted him. It showed Marc looking to change his sound and image, while alienating his established fan base.”