#vinyloftheday is one of those albums that is immensely influential, for utterly legitimate reasons. King crimson's "Red" is, particularly given it was released in 1974, an Armageddon sized slab of sound. Everyone from Kate Bush and Kurt Cobain, Tool and St Vincent have name dropped that album specifically (and one could even argue that the entire genres of math Rock and post Rock are wholly indebted to this album if not the entire King crimson catalog), although certainly it is not their only epic record, it just happens to be one of my favorites. While it is ostensibly a trio outing, there are a few guest brass and string session players to round out a sound that veers constantly between pastoral and spacey on one side, to dense and supermassively heavy on the other. The standouts for me are the title track, and "Starless" a 12-minute epic that starts off as almost sweet and pastoral, moves into a space that's a little bit more almost post Rock, drops into a stalking middlesexion, then into a frenetic almost jazz fusion chaos at the end. #KingCrimson #BillBruford #johnwetton #RobertFripp #progrock (at SoFA District) https://www.instagram.com/zeruch/p/CXaZxhcLP2w/?utm_medium=tumblr