ELEKTRIK

I'm not particulary atracted of this "american" incarnation of King Crimson. But this album shows us two aspects: first KC is a live band, their best is live and the energy they have live rarely was reflected in the studio albums. Second is that the new material, and previous material fro TCOL are coherent, and can fit on the same set. Better would be to say that the best would be to keep THIS album and discard the studio versions!

From this point of seeing I reccomed this album to anyone that wish a different approach to the actual line up of the King Crimson. It is a fluent album, played well and a good recording. It as less electronic drumming, more balanced sounds. It doesn't makes replicas of the Double Trio songs (apart of One time) which friendly they don't convinced in the quartet form (listen to Heavy Construkction and compare to B Boom). In other words the actual KC is playing what has created. This honesty fills this performance, which you can appreciate even better in Eyes wide open DVD. The missing song is...eyes wide open, which I would highly appreciated. Nevertheless if you want to begin listening the King Crimson of the period 2000-2003 you can do it from here...