Another letter explains in textbook detail the process of mastering a record. The band then swings into a Fairport Convention-style mix of traditional British Isles folk and sweeping jam arrangements. The song begins with a slow, moving, Pachabellian string arrangement. An impressive series of jazzy cymbal rim shots kicks in and sets the stage for the driving propulsion of acoustic rhythm guitar. The band's foray into disco and funk is significantly weaker, if notable for Vince Canters' guitar work.
Sellers has a particularly hard time hitting the high notes here.
It's not the only moment in which his vocals are gratingly overreaching. One of the chief problems keeping Tautologic from living up to its clear professional promise is rather irritating unprofessionalism of Sellers' vocals. Sellers suggests the incongruity might arise from the difficulty of adapting classical vocal training to pop music. In any case, the sometimes odd, sometimes simple sense of melody tends to call attention to the flailing vocals. As Tautology, the band, appropriates the conventions of both minimalism and pop, the shoe, as it were, fits.