With their third album, Blondie produced some of their most enduring hits in the public ear, including “One Way or Another”, “Heart of Glass”, and a cover of “Hanging on the Telephone”, which starts off the LP with a clear showcasing of the post-punk/pop/new-wave blend which fills the album.  Bold guitar-work, strong bass-lines, lively drums, and Debbie Harry’s aggressive but enticing vocals are strung together in a dozen songs that are kept to easily-digestible size, never breaking the four-minute mark.

On the lyrical side, themes of emotional distance, neuroses, and longing are dressed up in upbeat presentation, with jolts of keyboards and electric piano dropped in occasionally for extra kick. 
Experimentation with infusion of other styles, like the disco rhythms of
“Heart of Glass”, helps keep things energized, and in spite of the
album’s brevity, it feels just full enough to leave listeners wanting
more. 

The choruses are firmly established without getting overused, and the band shows an all-around thorough grasp of how to make the songs accessible without undue compromise of the content, poppy though it is.