By his own description, Adrian Belew’s latest solo LP draws more from “quirky pop” than the proggy acrobatics of his former band, King Crimson. But these two creative roles – the Beatles-y hook writer and the experimentalist – always balance each other out in the long run, eternally linked by his uncanny gift for summoning strange noises. “[That’s] been my most important contribution,” Belew says. “I’ve always had a knack for emulating sounds or creating new ones.”
In the emulation category, Elevator has plenty of choice moments, like a frenetic sedan-horn guitar solo on the bluesy A Car I Can Talk To.
