ADRIAN BELEW Desire Caught By The Tail (Island)

This is the Adrian Belew record for those who’ve loved his guitar playing but might’ve had doubts about his singing and/or pop songwriting. Desire ... is all instrumental, ali Adrian, and he used his expansive sonic palette to come up with some of his neatest noises yet. At times, he recalls the midEastern modalities of Kaleidoscope; but others, the polyrhythmic pan-tonalities of Can, but even his most outrageous sounds are unmistakably his own. M.D.