An excellent testament to an excellent band

Review Score: (10/10)
Utopia was an important band to me in the 80's. They are still an important band to me, although they have not released an album of all-new album since 1985's underappreciated "POV". Well, I do have the good memories, and "Adventures in Utopia" is one of my fondest memories of Utopia! This is an album of extreme diversity, which is one of its greatest strengths. Their are moments of pure catchy pop excellence, such as "You Make Me Crazy", "The Very Last Time" and "Set Me Free". Some lush progressive rock stylings on songs like "The Road to Utopia" and "Caravan". A bit of soulfulness with "Rock Love" and "Second Nature". And even a gorgeous synth-based ballad called "Love Alone", that shows off Utopia's fine vocal harmonies. The thing that made Utopia such a pleasure is that functioned so well as a unit. All of them wrote songs, traded off on lead vocal duties, and complimented (rather than interfeared with) each others instrumental talents. While many may think of Utopia as "Todd Rundgren's band", they were definitly an equal partnership, and this band just would not have the same "spark" without the excellent contributions of Kasim Sultan, Willie Wilcox, and their ever-imaginative keyboardist Roger Powell. Utopia was a creative and underrated band who never got the respect they deserved for the media. This album proves that point beyond a shadow of a doubt!

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