Islands (King Crimson album)

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Islands
Islands cover
Studio album by King Crimson
Released December, 1971
Recorded October 1971
Genre Progressive rock
Length 43:34
Label Island Records
Virgin Records
Producer Robert Fripp, Peter Sinfield
Professional reviews
King Crimson chronology
Lizard
(1970)		 Islands
(1971)		 Earthbound
(1972)

Islands is the fourth album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1971.

The last King Crimson studio album before the group's trilogy of Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red, it is also the last to feature the lyrics of Peter Sinfield and the last to feature the band's 'traditional' progressive sound.

The album received mixed reviews. There are four tracks with lyrics on this album, and three of them concern women. One of them, "Ladies of the Road", has been criticized for perceived misogyny.

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[edit] Trivia

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  • The original U.K. and European cover depicts the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius. The original U.S. and Canadian album cover (as released by Atlantic Records) was a Peter Sinfield painting of off-white with coloured "islands". This was used as an internal gatefold sleeve in the U.K. When the King Crimson catalog was re-issued by EG, they standardised on the "Trifid Nebula" cover world-wide.
  • Robert Fripp taught Boz Burrell how to play bass so that he could perform the instrument as well as sing on the album. Burrell later became the bassist for the band Bad Company.
  • The original LP cover displayed neither the name of the band nor the title.
  • "Islands" was covered by Japanese artist Ai Aso on the She's So Heavy split 7".

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Formentera Lady" (Robert Fripp, Peter Sinfield) – 10:14
  2. "Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) – 7:21
  3. "The Letters" (Fripp, Sinfield) – 4:26

[edit] Side two

  1. "Ladies of the Road" (Fripp, Sinfield) – 5:28
  2. "Prelude: Song of the Gulls" (Fripp) – 4:14
  3. "Islands" (Fripp, Sinfield) – 11:51

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