RED

This album to me is the best one released during the Wetton era, in fact it is better by far than "Starless And Bible Black", since it's more homogenous and personally I find it more interesting than the splendid "Lark's Tongues In Aspic". The title track is an istrumental piece, to be honest one of the easiest ever written by the band. Track number two and number three ( "Fallen Angel" and "One More Red Nightmare") are two excellent songs sung by a very inspired Wetton, whose bass sounds incredibly great and heavy on this album, expecially on "Red" and "One More Red Nightmare". Providence surely has a very creepy, dark feeling, with a lot of noises coming out of nowhere; it has been called boring and useless...surely it's controversial, but not bad to me. The level returns to be very very high with the closing song: "Starless", once again a great vocal performance by John Wetton, on this dark and melanchonic song, which features superb mellotron a là "Epitaph", and very intense lyrics, not to mention the long coda which explodes after 9 minutes in a instrumental section featuring saxophone solos in what could be considered like the prosecution of "21st Century Schizoid Man": Brilliant, absolutely, one of the best track ever released by King Crimson and one of the highest peaks in Progressive music!

This album is the "In The Court Of The Crimson King" of the Wetton era: a perfect album, one of the finest moments in progressive music ever... Not to mention it contains some songs which became later on truly classics, like "Starless".

A must have for every prog head!

5 Stars.