ELEKTRIK

With Robert Fripp's reluctance to look backwards, a King Crimson concert from the new millenium will usually consist primarily of songs from the latest album. So on this album, recorded in 2003, we get mostly songs from The Power To Believe.

The album starts out slowly. At least they had the good sense to limit the Introductory Soundscape to five minutes, but it feels much longer. And The Power To Believe I comes off as Adrian Belew showing off a synthesizer effect.

The album hits it's stride with Level Five, and pretty much stays up through the end, with a slight dip at Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With (nowhere near as powerful as the studio version) and One Time (one of those Belew ballads). But the album ends on a high note, with a great spacy jam on The Power To Believe II through the closer, a raucous version of The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum.

Too good to be rated 3 stars, but not quite a 4 star album, I'll rate this 3.5 stars, rounded up.