L album cover
L

Steve Hillage

1976
Virgin

For his second studio album, Steve Hillage wrote to his fellow prog-inclined guitarist Todd Rundgren to see about handling the recording, leading to sessions at the latter’s Woodstock studio to create 1976’s L. With Hillage and Miquette Giraudy accompanied by three members of Rundgren’s band Utopia, not to mention a guest appearance by trumpeter Don Cherry, L is a curious beast in the best of ways, with covers of songs by the Beatles and Donovan balanced by Hillage and Giraudy’s compositions, Hillage’s liquid, sometimes frenetic guitar the linchpin.

Ned Raggett

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