Here - Adrian Belew

Thankfully the final album of Adrian Belew's mostly disappointing era of throwback sixties pop-rock, 'Here' is also slightly superior to its predecessors, mainly for featuring more experimental touches - even if most of these were admittedly experimented with by the Beatles thirty years earlier. Indeed, some songs are clear Beatles imitations, particularly 'Burned By the Fire We Make,' the ethereal 'Fly' and the Eastern-tinged 'Survival in the Wild' that features George Harrison style sitar, while others vary between generic outdated imitation and quite good guitar touches that really should have been used more extensively. The style here is mostly similar ...  Read the complete review