PETER GABRIEL 3 [AKA: MELT]

Peter's third album is probably his most experimental release and one of the most inventive albums of the early 80's "new wave" (along with IMHO KC's Discipline and Talking Heads' Remain In Light). Vocal melodies are 100% Gabriel style (pretty timeless by the way), but instrumental parts are so unusual that it's required to hear album several times before various elements of Peter's strange musical world become to stick together tight. My favorite tracks: Intruder (simple but inspiring drumming provided by Phil Collins), No Self- Control (Robert Fripp's guitar work, great progression), Games Without Frontiers (marvelous in every aspect, I really like the ending that sounds like early 80's version of techno) and Biko (comments unneccesery here). To sum up: Maybe not his best, at least for my ears, but I appreciate it a lot and I hope most prog-fans will too.