condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (minimal wear)

With original innersleeve.

Released in 1979 on Editions EG, Exposure is Robert Fripp's first solo album under his own name, the record that announced his post-King Crimson turn toward what he called the "Drive To 1981", a three-album program (with The League Of Gentlemen's self-titled record and God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners) intended to transform Fripp from a band guitarist into a productive solo entity. The cast was vast and unlikely. Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins, Tony Levin, Peter Hammill, Terre Roche and Sid Smith all contributed; the production was Fripp himself, the layering as intricate as anything he had done with Crimson.

The songs swerve. "You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette" is two minutes of taut new-wave punk. "Disengage" features Hammill's most unhinged vocal performance of the late 1970s. "I May Not Have Had Enough Of Me But I've Had Enough Of You" is a duo with Hall that became the de-facto blueprint for Sacred Songs, the album Hall would record with Fripp and that RCA would shelve for two years. The instrumentals ("Breathless", "NY3") feature the first recorded examples of Frippertronics, his tape-delay solo guitar system. Joanna Walton's spoken-word interjections punctuate the whole.

The original vintage Editions EG pressing of 2310 661. Exposure is the central document of Fripp's late-1970s reinvention, the album where everything that made the next decade of King Crimson, League Of Gentlemen and Frippertronics possible was first stress-tested. Dense and singular.