KING CRIMSON

Larks’ Tongues In Aspic: 50th Anniversary Edition PANEGYRIC

JULIAN MARSZALEK

Landmark album celebrated with new golden jubilee mixes. King Crimson always stalked the more extreme and art-driven end of prog rock. Creating a whole new vernacular, Larks’ Tongues In Aspic has weathered the last five decades well. Indeed, this is an album that inhabits a space in which King Crimson are the sole inhabitants. And while they’re largely seen as the product of idiosyncratic guitarist Robert Fripp, their best work under the Crimson banner has always been the result of collaboration rather than dictatorship. Ergo this, the band’s fifth album, which is now celebrating its golden anniversary. “The new mixes shine a light on a well-trodden path.” What makes Larks’ Tongues In Aspic such an enduring and rewarding experience is that this particular line-up – mainstay Robert Fripp, drummer Bill…

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