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"Let's Get High" is typical: skiffle-styled verses about being "high on love", swathed in handclaps, tambourine, rasping horns and fanciful psychedelic effects, pointlessly prolonged by an interminable vocal coda. "Two" is better, akin to The Rooftop Singers, at the intersection of corny and catchy.
Elsewhere, the style alters subtly – "Life Is Hard" is a wannabe anthem, "They Were Wrong" a lugubrious Leonard Cohen/Lee Hazlewood cross – but is most effective on gospel-soul cut "Please!", with falsetto lines like "War is the evil of man's repressed libido".
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