THE CONSTRUKCTION OF LIGHT

Beautiful and underrated album

Continuing with the formula of "Thrak" but without the double trio line-up, the BELEW-FRIPP-MASTELOTTO-GUNN's KING CRIMSON published "The construKction of light" in 2000; a nice way to say goodbye to the 20th century and to welcome the 21st. This album was fresh and aggressive with lots of insane guitar riffs and very interesting electronic drum patterns.

The instrumental songs of the album show a more stylized KING CRIMSON (not too much improvisation, but rather songs extremely rehearsed), there are no soft ballads in this one, all the piece is hard rocky/bluesy metal from the beginning to the end. Maybe the softest part of the album is right in the middle of "FracKtured", but as a whole, the album has a very powerful sound more oriented to Progressive and Industrial Metal.

Maybe this album is not as great as "Larks' tongues in aspic" or "Red", but it is frankly more moved and interesting than "Starless and bible black" or "Three of a perfect pair".

SONG RATING: ProzaKc blues, 4 The construKction of light (whole), 5 Into the frying pan, 4 FraKctured, 5 The world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum, 4 Larks' tongues in aspic IV, 4 Coda: I have a dream, 4

AVERAGE: 4.29

PERCENTAGE: 85.71

ALBUM RATING: 4 stars

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