THE POWER TO BELIEVE

A very powerful and experimental material perfect to close KING CRIMSON's fourth era

"The power to believe" was the first KING CRIMSON album that I bought and had on my CD collection, not the first one that I heard but the first that I got. Here in Mexico, this album is the easiest to find in the whole KING CRIMSON's catalog, is the only one that you can easily find in a national (non-imported) edition and with a very low price that oscillates from 80 to 120 Mexican pesos (between 3 and 5 dollars these days, 7 to 10 dollars back in 2011 when I bought the album).

The metal/very hard rock from "Thrak" and "The construKction of light" still remains in this one but here we can find some songs with more electronic/spacey sounds that give a very interesting and eclectic atmosphere. The mind-blowing drums by MASTELOTTO plus FRIPP and BELEW's guitar lines are on the same channel as the previous albums but creating solid and very original new arrangements.

This album is very far to be considered one of KING CRIMSON's best albums, but it doesn't have anything to make it a bad album either.

SONG RATING: The power to believe I: a cappella, 4 Level five, 5 Eyes wide open, 5 Elektrik, 4 Facts of life (whole), 4 The power to believe II, 4 Dangerous curves, 4 Happy with what you have to be happy with, 5 The power to believe III, 4 The power to believe IV, 4

AVERAGE: 4.3

PERCENTAGE: 86

ALBUM RATING: 4 stars

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