Three of a Perfect Pair

by King Crimson

Three of a Perfect Pair cover art

The final album of King Crimson's highly rhythmic 1980s incarnation explicitly divides its tracklist between accessible, new wave-inflected art pop and deeply complex, industrial-leaning progressive rock. Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew weave intricate, interlocking guitar patterns over incredibly technical polyrhythms and Chapman Stick textures. It is an anxious, abstract, and mechanically precise conclusion to the band's remarkable synthesizer-era trilogy.

Genres

  • Art Rock
  • Progressive Rock
  • New Wave

Tracklist

  1. Three of a Perfect Pair
  2. Model Man
  3. Sleepless
  4. Man With An Open Heart
  5. Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds)
  6. Industry
  7. Dig Me
  8. No Warning
  9. Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. III
  10. The King Crimson Barber Shop
  11. Industrial Zone A
  12. Industrial Zone B
  13. Sleepless (Tony Levin Mix)
  14. Sleepless (Bob Clearmountain Mix)
  15. Sleepless (Francois Kevorkian dance mix)