Mott the Hoople Reissues:
"Which brings us to Brain Capers. By Autumn '71, Mott was in a funk. The calculated effort that went into Wildlife had netted no measurable improvement in sales. In a wonderful move (not for Mott's career, for sure, but definitely for us fans), they reinstalled madcap Guy Stevens as their producer.

The result was Brain Capers, featuring an intoxicated 'n' ornery Mott the Hoople presenting the most aggressive grooves of their career ('Death May Be Your Santa Claus,' 'The Moon Upstairs,' and destructo snippet 'The Wheel Of The Quivering Meat Conception'). Led by Ian Hunter's most sneering delivery and nihilistic rants, these tracks sounds like punk rock five years ahead of itself."