This album is filled with deep lyrical specifity, and musicianship that goes even deeper.

‘e’ reinvigorated Belew, even as it shepherded his new collaborators to wider notice.

Kali Z. Fasteau’s spontaneous composition theory might be forty years old, but it’s quite alive and well in practice today, no matter what she choose to play in carrying it out. On piano, it’s a downright rapturous.

Traveling far afield of Green’s regular gig with Alan Parsons, this album is about visceral emotions.

Armed with an impressive pop vocabulary, Phonograph should have been huge.