RED

This is their best, and possibly one of my 2 or 3 favourite albums. "Providence" is just a jam , but it is a pretty good one (better than "Moonchild" and those one their previous album), which keeps me entertained for its 8 minutes. Still, it's the weakest song here. The rest is perfect: "Red" is probably the best instrumental I've ever heard, which a couple of amazing riffs. "One More Red Nightmare" also has a great initial riff, and Bruford plays perfectly. It also has a nice jam with a saxophone, which I really love. "Fallen Angel" is a much softer song which I love. But not as much as the closer: "Starless". This could be the best KC song ever (or maybe the best song ever done by any band): it starts with a sad and beautiful melody and some mellotrons (it has a simmilar style to "Fallen Angel" and songs from their previous albums, such as "Exiles" or "Epitaph"), but at about 4:30 it suddenly changes, and what follows is one of the best moments ever recorded, which I won't detail here. An amazing and hard-rocking album. It has great saxophone jams, Fripp and Bruford play perfectly, while Wetton puts a really good performance with his bass and sings much better than in their previous 2 albums. I think this is the place to start: if someone tells you that prog rock is "boring pretentious self-indulgent music", tell them to get this one.