RETROPOLIS

The Penultimate review of the TRULY Amazing Flower KINGS.......RETROPOLIS - Good name for a CD me thinks and the music didn't disappoint either. It starts with the pointless Rythm of Life SKIPIT - and into a MONSTER of an intrumental, the title track - RETROPOLIS. This has a good strat and a nice guitar style - like Latimer of Camel, then we have organ and bass pedals in an ELP like passage - thats the Flokis - styles and liknesses every time they change the track - Some really good use of the old MELLOTRON and we pass through several complex phases and into a passage which reminds me of "The Enid" - An excellent start and an A+++ track. Track 3 - Rhythm of the Sea - Has genesis like 12 strings nice mellotron and a nice synth theme, all topped off with excellent guitar work and a STONKER of a solo from STOLTE. A++ Track 4 - There is more to this world - Nice synth motif -good solid organ and guitar work and a peach of a synthesizer solo, ends with a Yes like passge A+++ Track 5 - Romancing the City - A short Piano interlude - Good A Track 6 - The Melting pot (instrumental) - Noce Piano, synth riff and a bit of saxaphone - sets up Stolte Stonking Solo and then a bit of piano and Organ of the Church variety A+++ Track 7 Silent Sorrow - Again a good synth motif - STOLTE soloing and a lovely jaunty instrumental bit A+++ Track 8 - The Judas Kiss - God bothering lyrics but good use of cgurch organ and choral sound effects, Organ work ala ELP then THE BEST GUITAR SOLO on this CD ends with chords of POWER - A+++ Track 9 - Retropolis by night - Instrumental and a short composition like Vangelis. The final two tracks are my favourites on this CD Track 10 - Flora Majora - a stunning instrumental with Hackettesque guitar and some scintillating work on keyboards - track also has a Camel feel about it - as always great guitar work. Track 11 - My FAVE - The Road Back Home - Some nice arpegios on synthesizer and with stolte picking up little runs in between the synths - After-Glow type of chords lend a sort of Genesis Wuthering style of composition - Excellent stuff. All in all loads of good stuff to appreciate - FIVE OUTA FIVE