ISLANDS

Unlike most of the band's fans and supporters, I have always considered this as their best release or at least equally best to "In the court..." and I still do. We have a strange mix of soft melodies, dreamy atmospheres with a prog touch of insanity, always found in King Crimson's albums. Ian Wallace is probably equally good to Greg Lake and performs really well on all the tracks of the album, giving a special note of calmness, with the style of his voice, but also a bit of sick/weirdness alongside with the change of the music style on several parts of the album(take Ladies of the Road for instance). A travel through majectic islands with the music painting pictures in your head while listening to this album, just to make them fall apart right afterwards, guiding you into unshaped forms of insanity. I like the jazz touch of the album, along with the classical stuff that always define King Crimson's early period's albums. A total masterpiece.