Re-Post: Pete Sinfield - Still 1973

In a perfect world, Pete Sinfield's debut album as a performer would be as highly spoken of as the work of the artists he traditionally wrote with, King Crimson and ELP, who signed him to their own Manticore label) among them. Featuring nine tracks, any of which would have graced his mentors' own catalog, Still is an album of unimaginable richness and art, with Sinfield possessed of a far more pleasing voice than those who usually sang his lyrics. Fresh, at the time, from producing the first Roxy Music album, and with that album's intricacies certainly still on his mind,Sinfield visualized a collision between all his past glories, but fed through a wholly personal prism, to emerge one of the most startling albums of the '70s. Reissued in 2010, however, it takes on entirely new vistas as a full disc of out-takes and alternate versions is appended to the original album, including the otherwise unavailable "Hanging Fire" and "Can You Forgive A Fool?," plus early mixes of most of the album tracks. None truly top the familiar versions, but all possess an enjoyable character of their own, confirming not only the original collection's brilliance, but to build on it, too. AMG.

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