LIZARD

Well, altough this album's been recorded back in 1970, it still sounds extremely progressive and innovative. It is playful, dark, melodic, lyric, spooky, adventurous, grandiose, meandering. It has an avant-garde felling all over it and it is more jazzy and symphonic (in the classical way) than any other KC album. The performances and sound are excellent and, as time passes, the music becomes deeper, while you can hear a great number of acoustic and electric instruments building an enormous sound canvas. The guitar playing is very characteristic, the mellotron reigns and McCulloch's style on the drum kit is brilliant and very personal. Now, if you add the amazing painting on the cover, you have an essential piece of musical art, not only in progressive rock's territory, but in contemporary music's too.