I criminally missed Tesla in the racks for so long, too devoted to my satanic lords and thrashing messiah's, but if there's a band that sum up 'universal music' as such then its these guys. 'Mechanical...' wasn't a mind-blowing debut, if anything a soft-walled rock record to laze around too instead of truly rock out, but the band would become far better, far tighter and somehow cool. 'Mechanical...' seems cliched and yet also sincere in its bleatings, 'Ez Come Ez Go' kicks in on a big riff, pure American rock but from here the band become at once sleepy and summery, '2 Late 4 Love' grooves big but the band also flitter between a Def Leppard kind of wall of sound. Tesla please big crowds 'We're No Good Together' throbs like an old fashioned '80s hair ballad should, 'Little Suzi' hides behind a slushy acoustic whilst 'Love Me' thrusts itself into the commercial limelight. much preferred to the hairy stageshow of Kiss, 'Mechanical...' is a nice record and nothing more, but the band would offer far more in the following releases than just pomp.
7/10
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