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ADAM & EVE

The Flower Kings

 

Symphonic Prog

3.48 | 564 ratings

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heberduarte
2 stars My God... What did happened to Mr. Roine Stolt??? This is the WORST work from the Flower Kings I ever heard!!! I never thought that after the very good "Unfold the Future" they could commit an album so weak... Let's begin for the open track, the 1st suite, "Love Supreme". When the music enters you think you're hearing a YES album, but not in the vein of the seventies or the YES of the "Keys" albuns... It's something like the poor and weak "Open Your Eyes" album... This song is very uninspired and have no great variations, and this could not happen in a song with almost 20 minutes!!! The 2 songs from keyboardist T. Bodin ("Babylon" & "Days Gone By") are innocuous... 2 little inoffensive pieces of complete emptyness... (when I think that the same guy made great songs like "Dream On Dreamer" and "Rumble Fish Twist" or some great melodies in the "Flower Power" suite...). And there's the track "Vampire's View" where unfortunately we hear the melodramatic (and sometimes comic) voice of Mr. Gildenlöw. The same artifice that he puts on the songs of Pain of Salvation... ok, it can works with his heavy metal band, but NOT with The Flower Kings... What is this, Mr. Stolt? You been influenced by your bad pupils??? And Mr. Gildenlöw, please get out of the Flower Kings, this band can't be infected by your "metal" roots, and like a fan I am not interested in a third vocalist... Ok, but there's good tracks in this record, in your majority by their second half... The good title track brings some hard rock in the right dose. The songs "Cosmic Circus" and "Starlight Man" are nice works with good melodies. "Timelines", a composition of J. Reingold with Mr. Stolt it's innovative and really works. And the second suite of the album, "Drivers Seat", is very better than "Love Supreme". But in the end... it's a sad testimony to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band. I hope for the next album that Mr. Stolt don't invitate Mr. Gildenlöw anymore. And that he makes something so wonderfull like "Back in the World of Adventures" or "Flower Power"...
| 2/5 |

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