Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part One/Book Of Saturday/Exiles/Easy Money/The Talking Drum/ Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part Two
Larks’ Tongues In Aspic was the first album release from King Crimson after extensive personnel changes including the recruitment of Bill Bruford from Yes. The number of experimental avant-garde tracks produced mixed reviews. (US:61 UK:20)
“The opening track, part one of the title track, seamlessly flies through ambience, jazz fusion, metal and horror movie music. Fripp goes completely insane on his guitar, going straight from beefy Black Sabbath riffing to convoluted atonal hyper-fast jazz-rock.”
“I love every single second of this album. Larks' Tongues In Aspic is one of my favourite progressive rock albums. With this record King Crimson experimented with a slightly more harder sound. This is often considered their heaviest album and it's no surprise. Especially as the opener and the closing tracks have some very heavy parts here and there.”
“It's not that it's awful, it's not even bad, it just isn't anything. There's experimental and there's tuneless, this is the latter. It works in the middle of The Court Of The Crimson King, because it's contextual, but it doesn't work here. Take away the four short tracks in the middle and you are left with pure disjointed noise.”
“The album doesn't sound very good. It is innovative, experimental, brave, left-field music definitely, even outside the box of the generic British prog rock. But music should always sound good as music, perhaps excluding some fragments that are intended to work some other way within a frame that essentially features good-sounding music. But this is not the case here.”
“Larks’ is an avant-garde masterpiece that is absolutely drenched in darkness as well as beauty. Kicking off with the blueprint to every extended instrumental King Crimson has done since is Part One. This song shows Fripp’s new found approach to songwriting, slowly building tension that ends with an explosive climax. The entire song is a roller coaster of sounds.”
“Larks' Tongues in Aspic sacrifices the sweetness of some songs in other King Crimson albums to create a rougher, more intricate and complex sound. If you like King Crimson's beautiful lyrical songs this is not your album.”
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