Consumer Guide Album

Leo Sayer: Silverbird [Warner Bros., 1973]
The musical tricks repeat themselves, but they're good--the sharp, punky growl that accedes so naturally to the vulnerable falsetto, the punch of the drums against the depth of the strings. But the words fail me. Sayer makes much of his mask--a mask so enigmatic that it registers, at best, as a blank. Why then should I wonder what's behind it? B−