After Thrust- Niles pursued a quiet solo career — both under his own name and with a backing band also called Thrust. The guitarist’s later works like Liftoff Lunar and Re-Entry are undoubtedly more technically accomplished with stronger musicians. Today Niles is understandably far more apt to talk about those and they fill out the lion’s share of his life’s work. - - Still whether due to the jitters the unorthodox setting or the mid-fidelity sound which would later become not only fashionable but desirable Thrust — and its sequel Thrust Too — possess an irreplaceable charm. - - What Thrust Too loses in atmosphere it makes up for in deep grooves like on “Hang Ten” “Parrott City” and “Machelle.” McNeal — the namesake of the latter — appears on the final track “Survival of the Funkiest” featuring rap-inflected vocals from the trio Coffee Cream and Sugar. - - While Thrust Too is sometimes lost in the conversation surrounding its predecessor it’s just as worthy from a musical and collector’s — hence We Are Busy Bodies releasing both records together to trace Niles’ early evolution. But in a sense Niles was just clearing his throat — he’d go on to make more mature sophisticated works from Re-Entry to Lunar.