Longtime streaming hold-outs King Crimson will have their 13 studio albums on Spotify June 10th

[Miles Archer]

At a press event in London on Saturday, King Crimson manager David Singleton announced that the band’s entire studio-album catalog will soon launch on Spotify. Describing the move as part of an “outreach year” for the band, Singleton said the albums are set to begin streaming in time for the avant-rock legends’ upcoming 50th anniversary tour.

Streaming holdouts for years, King Crimson began launching select titles on the service in 2017. In June of that year, they posted two live releases by their current three-drummer incarnation: multi-disc set Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind and five-song EP Heroes, which featured the band’s live cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” performed in Berlin, where King Crimson guitarist-bandleader Robert Fripp had played on the song’s original studio version nearly 40 years earlier.

More recently, they’ve posted a series of archival releases documenting various phases of the band, and kicked off a weekly series of rare or new King Crimson tracks, posted each week for streaming and download.

Singleton said that the band’s 13 studio albums — from 1969’s In the Court of the Crimson King through 2003’s The Power to Believe — would roll out on other streaming platforms in May before arriving on Spotify on June 10th, the day King Crimson kick off their world tour in Leipzig, Germany.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/king-crimson-albums-streaming-spotify-818686/

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Consistent, high quality music from the first album to today.

Many world-class musicians have played in King Crimson. There's a little known fact that, in the late 60s or early 70s, Fripp was accepting auditions for band members, and turned down Elton John when he auditioned.

[Miles Archer]

2. Yes, the second album, "In The Wake Of Poseidon."

The current KC has dug deep into the first two albums in concert. The Belew era side-stepped them...as wise move, because Belew would have been a wrong choice for the material (even though he did record new vocals for "Cadence and Cascade" on the "Frame By Frame" box set).

[Harker]

3. I miss Greg Lake. n/t