The trick here is that Belew and Levin are currently touring this music as Beat, with Steve Vai taking the Fripp parts and Danny Carey on drumming. But here’s the opportunity to hear the ‘real McCoy’, a first-ever vinyl release of the 1980s band. Belew must take massive credit, as Bruford has rightly afforded him, not only for his ecstatic singing and innovative guitar (which forced Fripp to fight back spectacularly) but principally for the writing.

Crimson ‘under’ Fripp struggled for material (hence the amount of ‘live’ music edited in their studio) so Belew’s melodic, even ethereal, songs provided a whole new vision for the band to play against. With the albums Discipline and Beat then only recently released the music is fresh (not nostalgic!) with the lyrical ‘Matte Kudasai’ and yearning ‘Waiting Man’ beautifully rendered.

But this band rocks: ‘Thela Hun Ginjeet’ is urban paranoia distilled while ‘old’ classics go back into the furnace. ‘Red’ is titanic, a granite-grinding monster which this band’s formidable discipline somehow holds together. And even the most seasoned Crims acolytes will have to chase after their blown off socks on hearing the latter guitar choruses on ‘Larks’ Tongue in Aspic: Part II’. The best-ever Crims iteration? Let the people decide!