#KC2014 - NYC Reviewed

Posted by Sid Smith
20 Sep 2014

The latest incarnation of King Crimson gets the thumbs up from the New York Times’ Jon Pareles, who observes "as cerebral as King Crimson’s music is, with its mandatory virtuosity and its mathematical systems within systems, what comes across first and last is fury." Read the whole review here.

Elsewhere, The Day thought  "The songs built and evoked a twirling, brooding, almost suffocating sense of anguish, dark power, seething energy and frenetic tension that, in a sum-is-greater-than-the-parts context, gradually produced a crescendo effect of wonder and awe." Read it all here.


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