This is the record where the band stopped restraining itself. Released in 1975, it is the album built around the song that made restraint impossible to argue for: if the centerpiece could be that maximal and still land, why hold back anywhere else?

So they did not. The album moves through styles the way some bands move through a career, hard rock next to vaudeville next to close harmony, with no apology for the swings and no connective small talk between them. The thing that holds it together is not a sound. It is a level of commitment to whatever each track decides to be.

It also carries the production fingerprints of its most famous piece all over it: voices stacked past the point of reason, guitar pushed into roles guitars do not usually play. The studio is doing as much work as the players. Listen for that.