Considering his status as one of the U.K.'s greatest, and most prolific, songwriters,  has stepped out alone on surprisingly few occasions -- two solo albums three decades apart, and one full-length movie soundtrack that, though it features several songs to rate alongside any of his late '70s-and-onward output, he tends to dismiss as just that, a custom-written movie soundtrack that has no bearing on the remainder of his output. Recorded during the awkward period that followed  bandmate 's hospitalization following a car accident, during which neither  (the drab  album) nor  himself (the  LP) were firing at anything near full-strength,  is, nevertheless, a latter-day  album in all but name and numbers. The accompanying musicians include band regulars , , , and , together with longtime associate , while the musical mood is certainly cut in a similar mold to the best of the parent band's recent output. The playful funk squelching of the opening "Go for It," the chiming rock guitars of "Underwater Fantasy," the dreamy Parisian balladics of "Love's Not for Me," and the pulsating jungle chant "Kit Mambo" are all well-crafted evidence of 's versatility and, if  has any lasting flaw, it's one that it shares which so many albums of the early '80s -- a production (by  again) so locked in time and space that you could set your watch by it. But that is a small price to pay for a full album's worth of classic , and whether you have fond memories of the accompanying movie or not,  is an album you cannot afford to be without.