In The Wake Of Poseidon - KING CRIMSON***

Peace - A Beginning/Pictures Of A City (Including 42nd At The Treadmill)/Cadence & Cascade/In The Wake Of Poseidon (Including Libra's Theme)/Peace - A Theme/Cat Food/The Devil's Triangle/Peace - An End

In The Wake Of Poseidon was the follow up album from progressive group King Crimson which some critics considered to be too similar to its predecessor. (US:31 UK:4)

"Crimson's second album is a mostly competent re-hash of their first with some interesting new ideas thrown in for good measure. After the acapella intro, the first three tracks sound like outtakes from the first album - but they're not bad in the slightest. The title track has some incredible melodies and further entrenches the mellotron as the first thing that comes to mind when you hear King Crimson. A short interlude brings us into the groovy Cat Food. The schizophrenic piano is something we haven't heard before. The song is home to some killer guitar and piano improvisation before trailing off into beautiful noodling. The album's eleven minute epic is a fascinating rock recreation of Holst's Mars that on some levels fails embarrassingly."

"The title track is pretty fine in terms of early prog, everything else here however is vastly forgettable. Like In The Court Of The Crimson King, with a mild case of substance deficiency. What this does have however, is needlessly large amounts of time spent on seemingly pointless interludes and intros and outros pretty much all over the place."

"What a change from the debut. This album seems to me like a collection of leftovers and outtakes. The very first full song Pictures Of A City is obviously nothing more than a reworking of 21st Century Schizoid Man. One of the better pieces is The Devil's Triangle which was inspired by Holst's Mars from The Planets Suite. An OK album but too obvious that it is a half-baked reworking of the debut."

"A bit of a travesty, really, saved from utter disaster by enough brilliant and engaging musicianship, this progressive rock album is almost a carbon copy of Crimson’s fantastic debut. The only notable difference between the already established symphonic prog with experimental and ambient leanings familiar from the first album is a greater stress on jazz-rock improvisation and more experimental adventures."

"There has been a lot of criticism of this album for being a near remake of the first, and it is. But why is that a bad thing? I'd call it a re-imagining, not a remake, all the songs are completely different, but only the moods and sharp changes are similar."