These "
Final Cuts" are an odds-and-sods collection of music
Marc Bolan had been working on -- and it's in various stages of completion -- before he was killed in 1977. Some of the music here appears on other recordings of late cuts; some are reworkings of tunes or alternate takes of tracks that appeared on
Futuristic Dragon or
Dandy in the Underworld; some never appeared at all. You have to be a hardcore
T. Rex and/or
Bolan fan to want this music. There is a weird version of "To Know You Is to Love You" with a vocal by
Gloria Jones (the disco star who was
Bolan's wife), and the rest has either new tags, or more or less guitars, or reworked melodies. You get the picture. Usually Edsel is spot-on, but this is dodgy. About the only thing you can really compliment the compilation producers for is good-quality sound -- it's top-notch for what it is. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide