Tracklist: Peace - a beginning Pictures of a city Cadence and cascade In the wake of Poseidon Peace - a theme Cat food The devil's triangle Peace - an end

Band members: Greg Lake - Vocals Gordon Haskell - Vocals (on track 3) Robert Fripp - Guitars, Mellotron & Devices Keith Tippet - Piano Mel Collins - Saxes, Flute Peter Giles - Bass guitar Michael Giles - Drums Peter Sinfield - Words (lyricist)

Rating:
Second Crimson album, in many eyes very similar to "In the court.." and I have to agree cause it actually is. Not some kinda musical rip-off at all, just same style/sound done in a different kind of way. Crimson were having heavy personel problems at this time, lots of member changes but on this album the most important are included anyway. But Greg Lake was gonna leave the band as the recording of this album was made so on track 3 the "new" singer Gordon Haskell takes over (only for that track though but we'll see more of him on the next album).
Some of the best progressive rock in history awaits you here, for example "Pictures of a city" which is the heaviest tune here, it has this really doomy riff reminding me of 70's Black Sabbath (not that strange since this was the period when Sabbath did some of their best work) and a long part is instrumental. "Cadence and cascade" is a great ballad sung by Gordon Haskell who is Crimson's next lead singer. "Cat food": one of my personal fave tracks, also the weirdest one here, hard to explain but imagine a weird intrumental section signed Robert Fripp, throw in some cool jazz piano pieces and a little of 60's rock (Beatles or something like that) for the vocal part. "The devil's triangle" is a long instrumental piece and it's about the most evil musical piece available around this time (70's), I always imagine norwegian black metal bands doing that sort of thing as intros to their songs. Although it's not really a Crimson song, Fripp claims to have written it himself but it's actually "Mars, the bringer of war", from the classical work "The planets" by english composer Gustav Holst. And believe me friends I'm not making this up I have heard the original, however it's not a total ripp-off but Fripp "stole" it to do a wonderful Crimson version of the song. But didn't state that it's any sort of cover.
Another wonderful Crimson album, in every way essential to your record collection.







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