SPACE REVOLVER

Bookended by the two halves of I Am the Sun - a slowly-building symphonic prog workout in the Flower Kings' by-now familiar style - Space Revolver finds The Flower Kings plugging away and producing an album which is absolutely typical of their discography - but which also finds them rediscovering some semblance of restraint. After two double CD albums (Stardust We Are and Flower Power) with running times of over 2 hours, the Kings seem to have realised that sometimes less is more. As a result, whilst I don't think it contains anything quite of the stature of Garden of Dreams from Flower Power, it also doesn't have as much in the way of weak moments.