#1111a Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties

Here's where BOC sleekened up, everything getting leather-tight and swaggery, with hard-rock chops and switchblade glint, with a hint of glitter, with flashes of what 70's metal would become: songs about evil, dominance, submission, and harvesters of eyes, over guitars that can slink and slash with equal skill. It's a wooly, unpredictable, exciting little album that works its way out from under you again and again, clearly onto something, but cagey about letting you know just what 4/5