One listen.

Just went into it and spent most of the time feeling like I was trying to catch up. I like what came forward, however. Not sure how well it captures the song, but it does get across something in a manner that I feel is accurate.

King Crimson’s “The Howler” is from Beat.

I hope you enjoy.

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Silence, though sound soon fades in, and it seems funky and broken. At odds, though in alignment. A slight reduction and then it all comes into view.

Rhythm plays a steady, though seemingly wavering beat and guitar aligns at odds. Vocals drift and warp and seemingly stretch and contract over the affair. It’s almost as though all is disoriented, or putting forward disorientation.

The sounds seem to reverse as they move forward and buzz before the vocals return and the warping continues. The distorting and the stilted, stumbling, yet absolutely graceful flow continues until it’s just guitar strumming out a pattern.

Percussion and bass, as well as more guitar come in and meet and counter, and the vocals too return, though more at odds with the rest, and also crooning, perhaps in a scared manner. And it continues on with the oddness, the sense of being off that feels so right.

Soon a solo of sorts, though perhaps it is better seen as a bombardment of terror and chaos, of release that slides into a return of the funky broken start, and it continues on until it fades and the song ends.