Well written songs with acoustic guitar played over sweeping and emotional Pop Ballad instrumentation. There are even some short Jazz themed preludes to songs which add depth.
A mellow, melancholic record that blends elements of MPB, Italian soft rock, and jazz fusion. It diverges from their previous disco-influenced sound and embraces a more measured, almost dreamy, psychedelic pop style.
Delivering everything from swing jazz and twee indie pop to pseudo-mariachi and waltz, these sounds and their accompanying bizarre lyrics come together to match the existential title, "Everything is a Lot."
The terms "soul jazz" and "funky jazz" were coined as a way to describe this new sound that was making an impact in the US and also on the other sides of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.