Regarding vocal delivery, McVie and Welch both bring a smooth, elegant touch to each of their own respective songs, something which already eclipses the tedium of Penguin and injects more eccentricity into the mix. Whilst the album's first two songs are obviously among the weaker half, songs like the quirky, excellent "Keep on Going" and quite beautiful closer "Why" both proved how far McVie and Welch could stretch their adventurous ideas. This is probably because, not forgetting the input of Bob Weston, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, the songwriting talents of Christine McVie and Bob Welch were fully realized in songs with more accessibility and memorability than ever before. If one were to forget the somewhat lackluster nature of previous album Penguin, which admittedly began to show signs of a band losing their edge, then Mystery to Me would automatically appear more relevant and vital to the band's resurgence into mainstream territory. But this was all in the past, given that by now, as evident on the band's strong and confident eighth album, songwriting was arguably at its most memorable and consistent. By the release of 1973's Mystery to Me, it was understood that the driving force between much of Fleetwood Mac's material produced in the early 70s was more or less a direct cause of Christine McVie and Bob Welch, notwithstanding the mark left by Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and to a lesser extent, Jeremy Spencer, as they all left the band one album after the other.
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