Following their huge 1969 breakthrough album, the U.K. band known as King Crimson splintered into a series of bands over the past 50+ years, with each breakup leading to a new sound that featured a completely new lineup of musicians. Taking a unique look at these various lineups of King Crimson through the years, long time Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto and his wife Deborah Mastelotto released Too Much Happiness: A Romantic’s Guide To King Crimson at the end of 2020. With Deborah featured on lead vocals and Pat handling drumming, the nearly hour-long, 12-track album offers low-key, (and on some tracks) near New Age versions of significant King Crimson that draws on music by the 1969 lineup with Ian McDonald and Greg Lake as well as the 1980s line up with Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and of course, Crimson’s co-founder and guiding light Robert Fripp. Although none of the original members are on hand here, Pat and Deborah keep the Crimson flame shining brightly on an album that will appeal to original fans as well as latter day listeners that first tuned into the band even as late as the mid 1990s, when Pat joined them. With excellent cover art and a full track-by-track list of the musicians, the only drawback is that none of the song lyrics are printed in the CD booklet. Deborah further adds “We compiled King Crimson songs and searched for the romanticism in them, then rearranged them. The addition of a girl singer automatically changes the feel of those songs and places them in a different genre.” Too Much Happiness: A Romantic’s Guide To King Crimson does alter the mood of these 12, classic King Crimson cuts, yet the inclusion of a wide range of supporting musicians keeps the sonic perfection at a very high level. Recorded and released during the global pandemic of 2020, Too Much Happiness: A Romantic’s Guide To King Crimson presents the music of prog-rock pioneers King Crimson in a different light.