Album: UK Artist: UK 1978 E.G. CD: EGCD 35 Band Members: Bill Bruford - kit drums and percussion Allan Holdsworth - guitars John Wetton - bass and vocals Eddie Jobson - keyboards, electric violin and electronics Produced by Mike Stone Tracks: In the Dead of Night (5:38) By the Light of Day (4:32) Presto Vivace and Reprise (2:58) Thirty Years (8:09) Alaska (4:45) Time To Kill (4:55) Nevermore (8:09) Mental Medication (7:31) Comments: Really a King Crimson offshoot band, UK's first album is not as gloomy or dark as the mid seventies Crimson albums. Jobson's fast paced keys and electric violin may be what was missing from the mid seventies Crimson, although sometimes they may be too much. Thankfully, Bill Bruford was still using a real drum kit and not that electric stuff at this point and his drumming is as good as ever. (***) Reviewed by Matt Putzel
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