The Power to Believe

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The Power to Believe is the thirteenth and final studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson. It was released on 24 February 2003 in the United Kingdom and on 4 March 2003 in the United States<ref>Template:Citation</ref> through Sanctuary Records and met with generally favourable reviews, with several critics appreciating its heightened aggression. The Power to Believe was preceded by the EP Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With (2002), which features alternate and otherwise unreleased tracks.

Background

After a tour opening for Tool in 2001, King Crimson refined and focused their four-piece structure for their second album in that configuration.<ref name="BBC1" /> The release of The Power to Believe was preceded by Level Five (2001) and Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With (2002), two EPs that functioned as work-in-progress reveals for the album, which Fripp described as "the culmination of three years of Crimsonising".<ref name="DGM3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While Level Five was a live release featuring two songs that would appear on the full album,<ref name="allmusic3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With was a limited-edition studio release that, much like 1994's VROOOM, featured early studio versions of the upcoming album's tracks.<ref name="allmusic2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Content and composition

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Originally titled Nuovo Metal,<ref name="BBC1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="PF1" /> The Power to Believe continued the aggressive and occasionally industrial metal-leaning experimentation of King Crimson's previous album, 2000's The Construkction of Light, with several critics appreciating its increased heaviness.<ref name="allmusic1" /><ref name="RS1" /><ref name="DGM4">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Like that previous album, The Power to Believe was recorded with King Crimson as a four-piece.<ref name="BBC1" />

The album derives its title from "The Power to Believe", a four-part suite of songs that runs throughout the album. The phrase originally appeared in the song "All Her Love Is Mine" from Adrian Belew's 1996 solo album Op Zop Too Wah.<ref name="BBC1" /> The album's second track, "Level Five", acts as the fifth and final entry in the group's long-running "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" suite.<ref name="DGM1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="DGM2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Lindsay Planer of AllMusic wrote that the track "could easily be mistaken for the likes of Tool, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, or KMFDM."<ref name="allmusic3" />

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Critical reception

The Power to Believe was met with mostly positive reviews. The album received an average score of 72/100 from 8 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="MC1" /> AllMusic's Lindsay Planer praised the album's aggression and "sonic belligerence", writing, "If the bandmembers' constant tone probing is an active search to find the unwitting consciousness of a decidedly younger, rowdier, and more demanding audience, their collective mission is most assuredly accomplished on The Power to Believe -- even more so than the tripped-out psychedelic prog rock behemoth from whenceTemplate:Sic they initially emerged."<ref name="allmusic1" /> David Fricke of Rolling Stone appreciated the album's contrast of heavy, frightening periods against peaceful moments, concluding with, "In the face of war, King Crimson make hopeful thunder."<ref name="RS1" /> In their 2003 review, Mojo wrote, "This is a more consistent set, and, hopefully, a revelation for a few young metal heads."<ref name="mojo1" /> Chris Jones of the BBC called the album "simply stunning".<ref name="BBC1" />

Writing for Pitchfork, Dominique Leone said, "I can admit to feeling some of that old Crim magic a few times during [the album], but would be kidding myself if I thought it was as potent a spell as their adventures of yore."<ref name="PF1" /> Stylus Magazine's Ed Howard called The Power to Believe King Crimson's best release since 1981's Discipline but thought it did not live up to their earlier work.<ref name="stylus1" />

Re-issue

In 2019, King Crimson announced that The Power to Believe would be the fifteenth and final phase of their "40th Anniversary" release schedule. An enhanced and expanded master of the album was released in hi-res stereo audio as well as lossless 5.1 Surround Sound.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Track listing

All music written by Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto; all lyrics by written by Adrian Belew. Template:Track listing

Personnel

King Crimson

• Adrian Belew – electric guitar, vocals
• Robert Fripp – electric guitar
• Trey Gunn – fretted and fretless Warr Guitar
• Pat Mastelotto – acoustic and electronic drums and percussion

Production personnel

• Machine – production, programming, engineering, mixing
• Jeff Juliano – additional engineering
• Ken Latchney – haiku voice recording
• Tim Faulkner – voice source (track 4)
• Simon Heyworth – mastering
• David Singleton – mastering, management
• P. J. Crook – artwork
• Hugh O'Donnell – sleeve design<ref name="liner">Template:Cite AV media notes</ref>

Charts

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Chart performance for The Power to Believe

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref name="JPN">Template:Cite book</ref>	40

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