PARADOX HOTEL

This is a good album by the Flower Kings. The melody and composing remains as beautiful as in the latest album. However it's a bit different. You can feel this is the first album all the band made together. It is based mostly of group work and polyphonic melodies than on the instrument-solos the Kings used to play. In the earlier albums you could feel the musical segment where you know a guitar, keys or bass are playing alone while other instruments only giving background music and rhythm. Now you can feel the music is blended all together, and that brings the Kings to a differnent level. However, it feels like this album has the "Tales from Topographic Oceans" syndrome. It holds many minutes of great music. It feels like there a few minutes of great music more than can be put in one CD, so you get many fillers in order to not waste the 2nd CD. This album could be one of the band's greatest if it was only one CD.

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