KING CRIMSON

hat a curious, fascinating Frankenstein’s monster King Crimson’s 1969 debut album was and still is. Divided between outrageously experimental twists of sound and structure, and wispy, willowy ballads; it was technically all but impossible to record at the time, a circumstance that resulted in distortion and the loss of some high frequencies, (a quirk which in turn has ever since prompted various “realignments” and “corrections”). It was an album that