Title: Blue Oyster Cult's defining album.
Review: Secret Treaties saw Blue Oyster Cult achieve a degree of confidence and power that would carry the band through the rest of its career; even through the rockier terrain of its '80s output, the magic that the Cult discovered on Secret Treaties still managed to surface on selected tracks.For now we have this, a near-perfect rock document, characterized by the album-closing, diametrically opposite "Astronomy", a haunting, romantic piano-guitar-vocal number with intricate harmonies and melodic turns, and "Flaming Telepaths", a driving rock song with an apocalyptic vibe. Add that to "Career of Evil", the chilling but catchy "Subhuman", "ME 262", memorable riff rocker "Harvester of Eyes" and the cheeky "Dominance and Submission", and you have a coherent, powerful album, a landmark of '70s rock.
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