THE POWER TO BELIEVE

Guys at the peak of their powers after 8 years. Compositions are well crafted unlike on Construkction of light and experimenting is still present. Mastelotto provides killing drum patterns and modern electronic drums with touchs of electronica and even drum'n'bass. Two guitar dueling are powerful and Gunn's bass guitar is muscular as usual. "Level five" has a typical contrapunctal guitar lines between Belew and Fripp. Guitar shredding or fast riffing is also audible. The heaviness of the track can be compared to the 70's. "eyes wide open" is a soft number and can be compared to some light 80's vocal pieces by KC, however the drum landscape here is electronic.

"Elektrik" is faithful to its name with the jazzy guitar lines and electronic fuzzed bass guitar and drums. Yes, drum'n'bass comes as a pattern, too! The last minutes are symphonic and more pompous. This is a typical KC track that nobody could imitate. "Facts of life" has a psychedelic touch to it by the colour of the voice and double guitars.

"The power to believe II" is an experimental with multiple textures and no clear flow. "Dangerous Curves" is unusual for KC as it has a dance pattern but still dark synths and ominous guitar riffs. The track is great in conveying increasing tension. The remaining last "Power to believe" tracks are again soft and meditative songs.

This was a great way by KC to release an impressive album some 34 years after they started defining progressive rock. No other major old progressive rock band could cope with them in 2003, say with the recent exception of Camel in 2002.