King Crimson – Islands – 1971

[Roland Bru]

King Crimson is an important band that went through numerous incarnations in their forty year career. In their oeuvre, this is not an important album. The first song is way too long for having just one not too exceptional idea for a ballad. The second song sounds eerily like an instrumental the Allman Brothers Band rejected because the horns did not work. Unfortunately King Crimson (i.e. Robert Fripp) apparently disagreed and decided it would work. Experimental may be the bands’ middle name, but that does not mean all experiments work. For some reason I do like the last song, Islands, an neo-classical piece with a nice melody. It’s not enough…