EXPOSURE

Sure enough, Exposure is a right crazy mess. This album, the former King Crimson ring leader's first solo outing, is packed tightly with an eclectic array of musical styles, noises, telephone rings, fetishes. In fact, this album contains styles of music that would hardly be in existence for many years, in fact it could even be said that Fripp was looking into his crystal ball, into the future and was exposing us to what was to come in the musical climate, and he'd love that wouldn't he. Samples litter tracks, there are hints of what the re-emegering King Crimson, with Adrian Belew, would soon do, and some wild and crazy guitar stuff too, you could even imagine an act like Massive Attack working on something like "Exposure", there is stuff you might even term late eighties indie if you didn't know better, and a shit load more. "Disengage" is a crushing almost hyper metal edged song which then makes way for the very melodic and the more or less pop like "North Star" which features Daryl Hall from Hall And Oats fame. In fact, I'm sure this song features on a Hall album, it's a dead ringer for a hit and certainly better than anything Hall and Oats themselves did in the same vein, none I can think of right now, but you get the idea. Of course lets not forget "Breathless", which is something akin to "Larks Tongues In Aspic". Exposure is a finely produced album. The recorded instruments are clear and clean and well mixed which can put the erratic nature of the track listing and the odd actual cluttered up arrangements in a clear perspective. Not an everyday album by no means, a historic piece perhaps, but an interesting affair from Fripp and much of which is ahead of its time. Also features Phil Collins, Brian Eno (of course), Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill and probably a cast of thousands more. Exposure is probably the kind of shit that goes on in the weird head of David Lynch all day long. Well done Mr. Fripp.