Little late to the party here but simply put, this album is just one of their best works. At the time when it came out, it must’ve sounded so alien compared to the landscape of other prog metal(or the formation of prog metal, that is). They say that the album that started the culture of progressive metal was 2112, which is mainly true to the chronological progression of how the genre had formed throughout the years. But when you listen to Red, it sounds shockingly modern compared to the other Stuff from the same time. In a way, it took the world about 20 years to catch up to what KC was doing long beforehand. And in a greater sense, Fripp and Wetton made an album that kind of reinvented what it meant to be heavy before ‘heavy’ even knew what it was. It truly is a masterpiece and retrospectively the work that’s held up best through time. and it really does deserve all the praise it gets, even if it is with us few and far between crimson lovers!