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King Crimson: Lark's Tongue In Aspic (Atlantic SD 7263)

Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 5 July 1973

ONE THING you gotta say about Robert Fripp, the auteur behind King Crimson, is that he's ambitious. After perfecting his mellotron-dominated "death of the universe" visions on the band's first three albums, three underrated albums, his compositional hand has increasingly been attracted to more serious, "complex" forms, a la modern day avant-garde jazz and orchestral music.

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