>>230I like the Islands album. I don't consider the band as a prog rock band, it is so much more. Far Out isn't a prog band at all, at least I won't say it is. If you like this sort of music there's a plethora of similar music made in the 80s in East Asia. There are Korean and Japanese bands making simlar music.
It is not a good comparison, while Far Out is a very bluesy and psych oriented band influenced by, say, Jimi Hendrix and more (I've forgotten most of the band names, Ash Ra Temple, Flower Travelin Band, etc.). King Crimson is not bluesy at all and their music is much more structured and tight. I have lost interest in psych music for a long time since I now can literally improvise for hours what they put in their albums.
BTW there's a strange phenomena that I don't understand: whenever a band is a Japanese band there seems to be an unreasonable amount of praise. I have witnessed this unreasonable and bizarre favour towards "made in Japan" for long, I'm not sure what exactly is happening.
I love the lyrics of Islands and Formentera Lady. The lyrics of Cadence and Cascades is also superior. Sinfield is in my opinion is a great lyricist. And I don't think his lyrics is straightforwad, maybe except for the first album.
He's a symbolist. I can't even think of a poet that has the same mastery of imaginary than him. But at the same time his technique, the sentential flow, structural arrangement, etc. is at best mediocre, but the same is true of most poets.