USA

by King Crimson

USA cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1975
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:07:13
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: John Wetton, Robert Fripp, David Cross

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released posthumously after Robert Fripp disbanded the group, this recording documents the terrifyingly aggressive, improvisational power of the John Wetton and Bill Bruford lineup. The incredibly abrasive, metal-adjacent distortion and chaotic rhythmic shifts demonstrate a band constantly operating on the very edge of musical collapse.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, progressive, technical, avant-garde, uncommon-time-signatures

Tracklist

  1. Walk On: No Pussyfooting - Live (0:34)
  2. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II - Live (6:24)
  3. Lament - Live (4:22)
  4. Exiles - Live (7:23)
  5. Asbury Park - Live (6:53)
  6. Easy Money - Live (7:12)
  7. 21st Century Schizoid Man - Live (8:10)
  8. Fracture - Live (11:19)
  9. Starless - Live (14:53)

Credits

  • King Crimson - primary artist
  • John Wetton - bass, voice, written-by
  • Nicholas De Ville - cover
  • Robert Fripp - guitar, mellotron, written-by
  • Bill Bruford - percussion [percussives], written-by, percussion
  • Bob Bowkett - typography
  • CCS Advertising Associates Ltd. - typography
  • David Cross - violin, keyboards, written-by, keyboard

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