Music Review

Absent Lovers

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Lead Performance: King Crimson; Genre: Reissues

This King Crimson 1984 Montreal concert is rife with the sort of crafty guitar extrapolations and fusion-damaged exhibitionism that led many to dismiss the group's efforts as highbrow head music. But even if your taste runs to less esoteric fare, there's no denying that the two-disc Absent Lovers is as weird and rarefied as larks' tongues in aspic. You just know some cutting-edge DJ will sample this stuff sooner or later. B-

Originally posted Sep 11, 1998 Published in issue #449 Sep 11, 1998 Order article reprints

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