King Crimson
In The Wake Of Poseidon

THE REVIEW

Second work by the intriguing progressive psychedelic group, where the only truly stable member is the brilliant founder. It’s a pity that shortly after the exceptional visit to the court of the Crimson King, an excellent drummer (Mike Giles) was replaced with another no less talented, yet who evidently nods to the orchestral masterpiece and wind/percussion sync of the previous schizoid man.

Personally, while it’s a great album, it seems slightly in the shadow of the imposing predominance of the first. The impression it gives me is of "the second part of In the Court of the Crimson King," and I say that without any a poorly concealed desire for controversy. The metrics, though quite extensive, fluid, mostly clean and smooth, retrace, perhaps parallelly observing, the icy and grating ones of the previous work.

The lysergic values are quite high even if well mixed with abundant ounces of calm periods and sharp metallic impositions that nevertheless manage to indelibly mark the tracks with thankfully unique orchestration. The lights that fall on the 1970 stage reveal several empty areas, and by cautiously sweeping the projector of the era, the growth of still young shrubs can be seen which will become towering over the years.

King Crimson is part of the second fringe, of that electric field rich in magnetic shocks and organ drones, of delirious screams and Paleolithic sorties, of high voltage explosions and sensations of emptiness that will characterize that decade full of greenhouses and unfortunately mortuaries both materially and musically. The album is excellent, (a pity for the small but annoying shadow created by the starting dolmen) despite belonging to a stationary line born from a turgid surge that will tend to slightly dip downward with "Islands" and "Lizard," two other works of great artistic impact, loaded with sounds of high structural quality and masterly composition.

There will be no shortage of diasporas and fortunately thwarted attempts to send it all to hell until someone thinks of recording "Red," in my opinion the masterpiece of King Crimson with "Fallen angel" above all.