Speaking in Tongues

In 1973, King Crimson released what would become their classic fifth album. Larks’ Tongues In Aspic marked the beginning of a new era for the band, who welcomed not only a revised line-up but also a more dynamic sound compared to their earlier releases. Prog looks back on the making of a record that would steer the group into uncharted musical waters.

Mike Barnes

“If your version of rock music is sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, or three chords and the truth, there isn’t an awful lot of that on Larks’ Tongues In Aspic.”Bill Bruford By April 1972 King Crimson were in serious disarray. The group who had caused such a stir in 1969 with their live shows and their debut album – the epochal progressive rock statement In The Court Of The Crimson King – had gone through three line-up changes for each of their three subsequent and sporadically brilliant studio albums: In The Wake Of Poseidon, Lizard and Islands. But what had once looked like the most promising band of the early 70s now appeared to be the most unstable. King Crimson had, it seemed, essentially ceased to exist. Guitarist Robert Fripp’s uneasy…

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