Compared to In The Court of the Crimson King, and even In
The Wake of Poseidon; Islands definitely measures up. The band was essentially playing in the style
of their earlier hits when they made this one.
If that was their aim, then I would have to say that they accomplished
their aim. Notice that the volume isn’t
cranked on this one, and that is the sound of music before we had
compressors. I personally am fed up with
the prevalence of compressors. I think
that they take away all the dynamic from music, and spoil it just to be loud. In my opinion, if I want my music loud, then
I’ll just turn up the volume, and there is no need to compress anything.
If you want to know where bands like Dream Theater and so
many others got their sonic ideas, bands like King Crimson and Return to
Forever were definitely influential to their sound.
Also, you may notice that I essentially wrote the same
review for both Lark’s Tongues and Islands.
That is because I felt that the music of both of these cds is very
similar. Which is not to say that these
albums are identical, but in my opinion, by the instrumental music alone, one would
not be able to tell perhaps an unreleased B-side one of these cds from the
other. They are essentially the same in
greatness.
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