by Ted Mills
Conceived as the third part of an MOR trilogy that included Peter Gabriel's second album and Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs, Exposure is concerned with a marketplace that Fripp saw as hostile to experimentation and hungry for product. Strangely, then, Exposure is one of his most varied and successful rock albums, offering a broad selection of styles. &Water Music I and II& is pure Frippertronics; &Disengage& and &I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You& are angular, jagged rock like he would make with the reformed King Crimson; &North Star& is a soulful ballad led by Daryl Hall on vocals, and a less bombastic version of &Here Comes the Flood& with Peter Gabriel singing makes a melancholic ending. Peter Hammill, Terre Roche, and Narada Michael Walden also add vocals to a pleasant experiment in pop, Fripp style.