The title of this album is a great description of its contents: in 32 tracks, The Condensed 21st Century Guide to King Crimson presents the band's most representative (commercial?) tracks throughout its 40+ years of history.
Collectionists and enthusiastic new-listeners are the most obvious constituencies for this album (non-enthusiastic listeners shouldn't even try: King Crimson is something you like or not). With this album, the second group will finally be able to understand what is behind the chaotic and ever-changing style, and will also realize that King Crimson is Robert Fripp's personal project and that's it.
The best review of this album I was able to find is here. A slightly less good review is here.
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