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King Crimson – “Red” LP
The seventh studio album, recorded in 1974, by the progressive rock band from Southern England. One of those ground breaking albums that bombed on it’s original release – with uncommercial darkness and heaviness, with awkward time signatures (what we now comfortably call ‘math rock’) – it was just too ahead of it’s time.. roughly, by twenty years. And now rightly considered one of their best recordings. Stripped down to just three piece: guitarist Robert Fripp, bassist and vocalist John Wetton and drummer Bill Bruford. The dense sound was created by the use of multiple guitar overdubs and a new multi-layered recording techniques. Less than a minute into the title track and (to our modern ears) it will all make perfect sense.
