RED

Between 72 and 74 KC brought to World three albums. Well, Red to me is the less experimental and appealing of them. Apart of the opening track, a masterpiece itself, the other songs lacks of the fresh inventive of LTIA and SBB. At least if you compare Starless live version of the Great deceiver box set concerts and this studio version you will understand my refrain to give a high rate. This song is great, but in the studio sounds artificially conteint, like it could not deliver the intense energy of the live performace.

No doubts that KC is a LIVE band, therefore their best albums mantein this innocent, spontaneus approach that is tipical to live gig which those excelent musicians were so confortable to. Red didn't went through this process, and it pays for it. My opinion is to begin the 72/74 period of this great band with the album Larks' tongues in aspic.