Big GG kick right now. Love how this album almost sounds like a spooky house soundtrack

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah you're right Sab, there is a special suspense atmosphere created here through it all. It's probably the most experimental album of theirs, with sometimes a sort of hazy sounding and weird but tasty arrangements, medieval breaks and vocal harmonies everywhere.

Album Rating: 5.0

The Power and the Glory is their best.

Album Rating: 5.0

I have a soft spot for Free Hand. In A Glass House too. In fact I have hard times to choose between this one and the two others.

Free Hand doesn't have a special atmosphere, like this one for example as Jethro said too, but it's just so solid. It's also impressive how they managed to make it so accessible and catchy without sacrificing their sound.

In a Glass House leaves me kind of cold, though I love Way of Life. It's the same feeling that I get from King Crimson, I have a difficult time in finding a "human warmth" that would make me go back to the music again

Album Rating: 5.0

''Way of Life'' is a good call. ''Experience'' and ''In A Glass House'' are two of their best songs ever. Maybe ''Inmate's Lullaby'' is a bit out of place... It's sad and has no real emotion at the same time. It's still a 5 cos i'm used to it. ''The Runaway'' is also a great song. Album rocks!

As for King Crimson, they can be unapproachable and yet can be peaceful and warm. Early KC is from the second category. Discipline onward can be hostile at times, but they remain very melodic.

Album Rating: 5.0

Their first 7 albums are all top-tier progressive rock in their own way. Gentle Giant easily has one of the most consistently excellent discographies in the genre.

@Jethro: KC to me sounds kind of... "clinical"? "efficient and unemotional; coldly detached." yes, that word sums it up well for me. Even stuff like Epitaph or I Talk to the Wind give me that feeling, though I really like that part ~4:20 in Epitaph. I like their music in pretty much every album, but I never feel the desire to listen to them.

"Gentle Giant easily has one of the most consistently excellent discographies in the genre."
We were saying the same thing in the Octopus thread. I definitely agree

Album Rating: 5.0

@Sab;

I wouldn't go and say clinical, but it's a fact that KC's mastermind Robert Fripp has an uncommon way of playing guitar you can qualify as very technical and cold (just like him)... yes. But their music is not detached. They have catchy riffs throughout and great melodies as well. Not always friendly, but they meant it to be that way. Various emotions are delivered through their music too imo. Maybe you find them clinical cos it's the first experience you got with the band and it's stuck to your skin.

Album Rating: 5.0

King Crimson and Gentle Giant go for two entirely different sounds so the comparison is a bit off.

Album Rating: 5.0

King Crimson and Gentle Giant go for two entirely different sounds so the comparison is a bit off.

Sure, I was thinking more of the idea that GG makes complex music but still sounds very human whereas KC gives me a harder time. They both like to experiment too, An Inmate's Lullaby for example.

I'm familiar with most of KC's stuff, as I said I do like the music, but I really can't consider them a favorite of mine. The albums I dig the most are the debut, Red and Islands

I love Edge of Twilight so much.

Album Rating: 5.0

Perfect album with its hazy atmosphere and a lot of subtleties. My top 3 here are ''Pentagruel's Navity'' for its guitar riff and everything, ''Wreck'' for its bass, harmonies and everything, and ''The House, The Street, The Room'' for its shifting moods and everything. ''Edge of Twilight''is really haunting and has a good progression with the percussions that replace the vocals...my fourth favorite. I love them all.

I'm really captured by The Moon Is Down. Very pensive and evocative. I love the horns around 2:50.

For some reason this album always feels too short to me!

Album Rating: 4.5

The House, Street, Room is heavy af. Don't understand why I thought this was one of their weaker albums for a while.

Album Rating: 4.5

Truly unique, very innovative for its time and even now

If only Plain Truth went somewhere this could have been a near flawless album, makes me mad

Album Rating: 5.0

Plain Truth is not half bad...Just a bit overlong. I got used to love the entire album since the 70s.

Indeed it's not bad but it tastes like indulgence to me, especially when it almost takes up one fourth of an album as quirky as this one