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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fripp is Back!!, May 11, 2008
Excellent new recording. Very heavy and very cool. I highly recommend this excellent disc. I hope they are touring again. The new rhythm section of Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelette is killer and the recording pounds from the speakers just like a great Crimson recording should. Great stuff!! Bravo Fripp and Co.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A solid progressive rock album, January 18, 2009
If you are looking for a soothing and peaceful album with mellow passages then look elsewhere. What you will find is intense, in your face guitar riffing.
The stand out songs on this album are the "Construktion of Light", "Frakctured", and "Larks Tongues in Aspic". CoL starts off with Trey Gunn laying down a nasty bass riff on his Warr guitar. Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew then start exchanging note over this riff creating an eerie atmosphere when combined together. Part 1 of this song is strictly instrumental, whereas part 2 is where Adrian begins to sing. Both parts are great.
Fraktured on the other hand is all Robert Fripp. He plays an impossibly fast and complicated riff all throughout the song. While a technically impressive song, there is nothing smooth in its melodies. Musicians will appreciate this song, but maybe not others.
Larks is probably more like fraktured, in that it is a technical piece more than harmonious opus. There seem to be places where Adrian and Robert see to be doing some polyrhythmic (different time signatures played by each musician simultaneously) interplay that make for an interesting effect.
If you can appreciate good musicians playing technical music at the sake of smooth melodies, this album is for you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
DarKc Horse of the Crimson King, March 20, 2009
This is, if I were forced to decide, my favorite King Crimson album. I know some lamented the exit of Levin and Bruford and the inclusion of the ProjeKct material, but I don't have principles when it comes to music. To me, all music is worth precisely how much it entertains, and this music sends my musical spirits soaring. Well, after Prozakc Blues is over. Not that I don't like it - honestly, I don't even skip it when I'm listening, and it would be easy to do, being the first song. It's just a really good song competing with a bunch of other truly excellent ones. The two-part title song is probably only second to my favorite Crimson song "Elektrik." It sweeps and meanders and has you counting to 7 and 13 and 21, trying to figure out the tempo. I dare you; "Frying Pan" is a fun way to do scales; "FraKctured is an excellent exercise in virtuosity which has proven very difficult, if not impossible for the boys to do live; "Oyster Soup" is a good, clean, fun Crimsonesque tongue-twisting hyper-rhythmic tune with some throw-backs thrown in; LTIAIV, another impressive guitar fest, long overdue at this point; "Dream," a tip of the hat to MCM (20th century), and a segue way into; "Heaven and Earth," an instrumental outro suitable for chilling. A great, well-rounded listening experience for any true experimental music fan. Enjoy at safe decibel levels. YYYeah...
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