by how bizarrely unpleasant Lee Jackson's vocals often sound. And, even more strangely, the few times he manages to sound good, his voice actually works really well and I wouldn't have it any other way!
Thus on Refugee we have the veritable massacre of "Someday", the almost inhuman noisemaking of "Credo" (where it's at least appropriate)... and "Grand Canyon", which makes me think of the scene at the end of Florence Foster Jenkins where it's revealed to the audience how Florence heard herself all along.
I bring this up now because, as it turns out, the first Jackson Heights album is (at least judging from the first 2-and-a-bit tracks) a whole album of Lee managing to keep himself under control.