The Power to Believe (2003) Album Review

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Music critics combined give The Power to Believe a score of 2.9127 out of 4

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Rolling Stone

It is the sound of apocalypse now.
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Dusted Magazine

You can hear the absolute precision, yes; but the head and hands have not left the heart and soul behind.
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Amazon.com

Disciplined, varied, and often mind-blowing playing.
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Rolling Stone

King Crimson predicted the heavy terror of contemporary metal in "21st Century Schizoid Man," the first song on their 1969 debut,In the Court of the Crimson King.The Power to Believe, the first full-length Crimson studio album in three years, goes
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Stylus Magazine

This material is as inconsistent as anything off their past few records, but when they do hit upon a good moment, it tends to be really good.
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Pitchfork

Fans of the mid-1970s lineup should find the most to enjoy on Power to Believe, as it not only finds King Crimson playing with muscular aggression similar to that period, but also revisiting the group improvisation that set them so far apart from other
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"The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For
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