THRAK

This record holds some good art rock music from the mid 1990's. The "Vrooomies" in the beginning and the end are some sort of new "Larks' Tongues'" tracks, instrumental and symmetrical rockers with good rhythmic ideas. The album has six players, two for drums, basses and guitars (double trio), so there's lots of space for making textures. There are few good Belew driven songs like "Dinosaur", "People" and ballads "Walking on Air" and "One Time". Along these are also some quick Fripp soundscapes "Radio"'s, and Belew's "Inner Garden", which are not the most essential part of this album. "B'Boom" and the title song "THRAK" (?) show us the abstract and improvisational side of the band. There are some good moments in them, but the jamming isn't as good as it was during the 70's. "Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream" is then almost irritating to my ears. A decent album still, but not pleasing my own personal taste in a way their earlier albums did.