Beat

by King Crimson

Beat cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 June 1982
  • Label: E.G.
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 49:54
  • Community rating: 3.49/5 from 14 ratings

Artists on this release: Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Tony Levin, Robert Fripp

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing the stunning reinvention begun on 'Discipline', King Crimson's 'Beat' is heavily inspired by Beat Generation literature and urban paranoia. Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew's intertwining, heavily processed guitar lines dance over Bill Bruford's complex electronic percussion, creating a highly technical, polyphonic, and intensely rhythmic art-rock oddity.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, uncommon-time-signatures, polyphonic, rhythmic, polyrhythmic, guitars, complex, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Neal And Jack And Me (4:22)
  2. Heartbeat (3:54)
  3. Sartori in Tangier (3:34)
  4. Waiting Man (4:27)
  5. Neurotica (4:48)
  6. Two Hands (3:23)
  7. The Howler (4:12)
  8. Requiem (6:42)
  9. Absent Lovers (4:14)
  10. Neurotica/The Howler (Live in Philadelphia) (10:15)

Credits

  • King Crimson - primary artist, music by
  • Tony Levin - chapman stick, bass, backing vocals, Chapman stick electric bass guitar
  • Rob O'Connor - design [cover design]
  • Bill Bruford - drums, membranophone
  • Adrian Belew - guitar, lead vocals, lyrics by, guitar family, vocal
  • Robert Fripp - guitar, organ, performer [frippertronics], electronics guitar organ instrument
  • Arun Chakraverty - lacquer cut by
  • Rhett Davies - producer
  • Margaret Belew - lyrics by

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