IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON

If you love King Crimson (specially their first album "In The Court Of The Crimson King"), you will also adore this great musical masterpiece. Both albums have similar style and feeling: "Pictures Of A City" is a song close to "21st Century Schizoid Man". Both of them have plenty of aggressiveness. "In The Wake Of Poseidon" has a dramatic mood that remains "Epitaph", etc. Anyhow, in my opinion, "In The Wake Of Poseidon" isn't as good as their first album but there is some innovation in it: the band creates terrifying atmospheres with the track "The Devil's Triangle" (perhaps, a type of psychedelic instrumental song). Mell Collins replaced Ian McDonald for wind instruments. Anyway, both of them are fabulous musicians. One of the songs is beautifully sung by Gordon Haskell (although, I still prefer Greg Lake). Lake doesn't play bass guitar on this album. He was replaced by Peter Giles (who came from the previous band Giles, Giles and Fripp). "Cat Food" is an original song with a distinctive and chaotic piano with a particular sense of humor. At the beginning and at the end of the album there is a short song with the same melody but with different lyrics. Robert Fripp uses the melody of these songs to create an instrumental acoustic guitar piece that sounds gorgeous. "Poet" Peter Sinfield, who also appears on the previous album, writes all lyrics. On the other hand, I must say there are some magical moments that don't appear "In The Court Of The Crimson King".