1. One More Time
2. Love Is The Only Answer
3. Trading My Soul
4. The Sum Of No Reason
5. Flight 999 (Brimstone Air)
6. Life In Motion
Total time: 1:14:55
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The Sum of No Evil
The Flower Kings
InsideOut
It seems to happen sooner or later to every group that survives 10 years or more: the “back to our roots” album. But what if the genre is progressive rock? Is it oxymoronic for such a group to go retro? Does the regression cancel out the progression, resulting in … pop music?
In the case of the Flower Kings, the question is merely frivolous. “Back to our roots” for the universally admired Swedish band means a return to long if not epic songs, made up of multipaced movements, complex time-signature changes and extended instrumental passages. But “No Evil” is a first, in that the group at last is able to realize their music using technology and instruments of the genre’s heyday, playing emotional guitar solos through tube amps and performing dizzying keyboard jams on analog instruments such as Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes electric pianos, Hammond organ and grand piano, plus lots of Minimoog – all captured on 1960s and ’70s vintage recording equipment at Varispeed Studios.
As usual, TFK went into the studio with way too much material. But this time, instead of using it all for a double disc, they wisely chose the best material for either a stupendously supreme (or would it be supremely stupendous?) single disc.
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