Despite loving King Crimson, especially the King Crimson that featured Bill Bruford and John Wetton, for well over twenty years (since I first introduced to their music in high school), somehow someway I was never turned on to U.K. until this year. Sure, U.K. aren’t the world’s “hippest prog” band (a hilarious statement to begin with), but the band’s self-titled debut is prog-pop at it’s best, an unbelievably fluid album that’s structured like one ever immaculate song. U.K. was formed by Bruford, Wetton, Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music, Jethro Tull), and Allan Holdsworth (Soft Machine), and while the line-up with Bruford only lasted one album, it’s a dazzling vision of accomplished songwriting, often over the top, but radiant in it’s dexterous progressions.
TO BE CONTINUED