Frith backed up with some RIO stalwarts here, but it's easy to question how much effort really went into the songwriting - many of the pieces descend into free improv without bothering to first establish any sort of lure, or sometimes into rather makeshift Beefheartianism in dire need of vocals to pin everything together. progarchives.com, at some point, started throwing every slightly abrasive piece of music into their "Avant-prog" section after one cursory listen and you can point the blame at albums exactly like this one - musos with no plan heading into the studio and treating us to their most annoying tendencies. still, thanks to their sheer talent some cuts are, irritatingly, fascinating
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