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| 1. ProzaKc Blues |
| 2. The ConstruKction Of Light |
| 3. Into the Frying Pan |
| 4. FraKctured |
| 5. The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum |
| 6. Lark's Tongues In Aspic-Part IV |
| 7. Lark's Tongues In Aspic-Part IV |
| 8. Lark's Tongues In Aspic-Part IV |
| 9. Lark's Tongues In Aspic-Part IV |
| 10. Coda: I Have a Dream |
| 11. Project X: Heaven And Earth |
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
You'll have to excuse me as I'm still in a state of disbelief after hearing this album!
If this CD hasn't blasted your eardrums already, you're really missing out. Crimson still are on the cutting edge of rock music 31 years after their mindblowing debut.
I thought THRAK was heavy, but this album knocks THRAK out in terms of heaviness - yet the demands on Gunn and Mastelotto are delivered in style - a truely perfect rhythm section. Fripp's guitar work is still at its peak and TCOL probably represents the best guitar partnership between Fripp and Belew.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The second record from King Crimson Ver 4.0 (4.1, I guess, with the departure of Levin/Bruford) is harder, heavier and just plain better than Thrak, making no commercial concession at all. And a good thing too. More than any other KC record except Red and Discipline, this one is dominated practically front-to-back by guitar: specifically, guitar arpeggios. Climbing arpeggios, descending arpeggios. Distempered, single-minded, unpretty arpeggios with weird geometries and disorienting time signatures. Wow, you think, Fripp's on form here. However, apart from brilliantly and idiosyncratically defining a uniquely Crimsonian musical architecture, these rapid, flashing nets of notes seem to act like constraints to stop too much chaos, too much anger bursting out. Robert Fripp has always seemed to be a man with something on his mind which he prefers not to unleash, perhaps because it's too primal, too dangerous. Nevertheless, KC are always implying it and promising it, which, throughout their history, makes for fascinating but frustrating listening. While 'ConstruKction of Light' is powerful, heavy, elegant, streamlined and beautiful, you are always waiting for Robert to JUST LET RIP. Funnily enough, it's Belew who really lets it out here with impassioned and moving singing about depression/state of the world. It's his best vocal and lyrical performance by some distance. Behind him is the monster Fripp, frequently stirring but not yet ready to destroy the world. This man has the potential to make Voodoo Chile, Anarchy in the UK, and every other 'raw energy' piece sound like S-Club 7 if he so chooses; and that's what I'm still waiting for.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Robert Fripp did an web interview two months ago, and he scared me ; he said there would be a blues song on the new album. Well, I think blues is really boring and I've always appreciated Fripp for inventing guitar and band compositions outside of the blues. I should have known, I of little faith : ProzaKc Blues is amazing and very funny. Amazement grows with the title track, which is already a KC classic. I could go on writing superlatives here, or analyzing it, but basically : this album ROCKS. In rock, not much new stuff is happening, put this record is a innovation, in KC and generaly musical terms. And check out ProjeKct X too.
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Too Harsh
The Construction of Light and the Power to Believe have both been too Harsh, in my opinion. I thought King Crimson had peaked with the Red, Blue and Yellow albums but then, years... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2008 by Jeffrey D. Olson
Cracking album, almost perfect.
Every King Crimson album can be described as original, well written, interesting and technically astounding. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2008 by Gentlegiantprog
The counterpart of Thrak
I think TCOL is the counterpart of Thrak since Thrak had most "visceral" influence of Belew and TCOL has the just-the-facts view of Fripp, one can see it on the way the guitar... Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2003 by Yuri Huitron Alvarado
old fan slags new album
King Crimson reformed as a six-piece in 1994, released two studio albums and a live double in quick succession, and then went on tour. I was lucky enough to see them. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2000 by S. Loft
Another fine album from King Crimson
When I first played this album the openning track, "ProzaKc Blues", did not grab me at first, inspite of other reviews that rated it highly. Read more
Published on 28 May 2000
Wow!
Okay, so I'd heard of King Crimson, I mean, what serious music fan hasn't? I picked this up, had a listen, and had to buy it. Read more
Published on 19 May 2000 by toby.armstrong@durham.ac.uk
What else could a KC fan wish?
Maybe the presence of Tony Levin. Even the void left by Bill Bruford's absence is almost filled by Mastellotto's incredible drumming!
Complex but powerful, subtle yet loud. Read more
Published on 12 May 2000
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