KING CRIMSON

Discipline/Beat/Three Of A Perfect Pair PANEGYRIC

JEREMY ALLEN

Early 80s Crimson get the heavy duty vinyl reissue treatment. It’s hard to imagine now the impact and confusion that Discipline – the first album of this otherworldly early 80s King Crimson trilogy – would have caused among the fannish cognoscenti when Robert Fripp reanimated the group in 1981. Crimson had ‘ceased to exist’ in 1974 as their talismanic leader pursued his spiritual studies at Sherborne House, though when he did finally re-emerge with only Bill Bruford from the Red album line-up, the regenerated version bore very little resemblance to its lean and heavy predecessor. “Sounds like nothing else in the King Crimson canon.” Discipline, Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair sound like nothing else in the progressive rock canon or the King Crimson canon for that matter; a…

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