"Law & Order" reminds me of the steamy, erotic death rattles of late Hapsburg Vienna. There is a kind of intense delicacy that a culture achieves only in a declining, dying social order. "Law & Order" coheres & creates mood states in all their vertiginous complexity & mystery, & was the wittiest rock album since "Freak Out!" & "Absolutely Free" by the Mothers of Invention.
The other two albums, being inferior works, generate no specific reverberations or associations for me.
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