LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The band's follow-up to their legendary The Slider , 1973's Tanx was for many the last classic T. Rex record before Bolan began his irreversible descent into drug addiction. Despite the band's continued popularity, particularly in the UK, the album inexplicably never had a hit single, even though songs like "Born To Boogie" would have found themselves at home at the top of the charts. Although we can hear Bolan trying to expand the band's sound with R&B style backup singers and horns, songs like "Rapids," "Highway Knees" and "The Street & Babe Shadow" deliver vintage T. Rex.