BONDAGE FRUIT III - R?CIT

This live album sees Bondage Fruit moving even further away from the zeuhl heartland they originated in - in fact, for much of the album they resemble an even more noisy and harder-rocking version of King Crimson circa Larks' Tongues In Aspic, with a few heavy doses of jazz fusion and a slide order of plain old rock and roll to spice things up. It's a high-energy mix which doesn't seem quite as original as their brilliant second album - at points the resemblance to mid-1970s King Crimson approaches the uncanny - but they visit an impressive enough range of styles that the album will be worth a listen for all zeuhl, RIO, fusion and eclectic prog fans at some point in their exploration of the band's works, even if I don't personally put it in the top tier of their work.