Thrak

Thrak (stylised in all caps) is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band King Crimson, released on 3 April 1995 through Virgin Records. It was preceded by the mini-album Vrooom in 1994, which contained early versions of some of the same material. It was the group's first full-length studio album since Three of a Perfect Pair eleven years earlier, and their only full album to feature the "double trio" lineup of Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Tony Levin, Bill Bruford and Pat Mastelotto. It is the group's final studio album to feature either Bruford or Levin.

==Recording== Thrak was recorded in late 1994 at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Box, Wiltshire, England, with producer David Bottrill. Bottrill had previously produced Fripp and David Sylvian's 1993 album The First Day, which had featured Trey Gunn as a session player; both Gunn and Mastelotto had subsequently played in Fripp and Sylvian's touring band. With the band consisting of two guitarists, two bassists and two drummers, the opening track begins with all six musicians in the center of the audio mix; as the album progresses, they are split into two trios, with one in each stereo channel.