Are you a Red man? Or perhaps that audacious, eponymous debut remains your fave Crims outing. But for many Larks’ Tongues remains not only the Crims’ finest release but simply one of the great albums of its era. And now at last it receives its long awaited 40th anniversary make over. The immediate beneficiary of the new presentation is Jamie Muir whose extraordinary contribution appears in even sharper relief, notably on the long fast bowler's run up which is the percussive intro to the title track (part one). It reminds us (again) of how close Crimson and Fripp were to the free/experimental jazz scene of the time. There are of course multitudinous packages of this new mix: the CD/DVD-A: CD: has Steve Wilson's alternative mixes, plus over 30 minutes of DVD material of the band in the studio (ah, talk about faces good for radio). The plum in the pudding is the limited edition 13-CD box set (yup, that's 13), including the original studio reels and upgraded soundboard bootlegs, plus a Blu-ray version of the DVD images, Sid Smith's notes and a new interview with Fripp, indeed more goodies than we can list here and a packet of Maltesers to boot (actually that last bit's a lie). That could all be more information than you need right now, but there is also a simple double CD with extras: but however you box it, Larks remains core collection material. Smash open that piggy bank now.