LIZARD

"A magical Lizard album". Lizard really is a wonderful piece of music that is full of colour and imagination as the cover illustration suggests.It has a light vibrant jazz influence all the way through, it is totally coherent as everything flows along at a smooth pace,there is a lot less hard rock here than the two previous albums,but the song writing is so much better and shows a great leep foward all round."Lizard" is so much better and different than the other two previous efforts," In the court"and "Poseidon".In all respects it simply provides a far more colourful variety of music,which follows a similar theme all the way through which is very important.The production is finally at long last great,and avoids "the horrendous sound given to In the Court".Lizard is really a special album not only in King Crimsons catalogue,but also in all prog rock.Lizard is probably one of their best and sounds better now than ever,"a King Crimson Gem".