PARADOX HOTEL

Let's Get one thing staight first. I DO NOT consider TFK to be a neo prog band but rather a symphonic prog one. I can't understand why so many prog fans label the as neo... Tha being said, I'm sure that most of you following the band's steps these last years, have noticed a steady decline from space revolver and onwards (with the exception of "unfold the future" of course). This new effort is closer in sound to "the Rainmaker" and although it is by no means a bad album on the whole, it could use (perhaps more than any other TFK album) SERIOUS editing!!! There is a lot of filler to be found inside this two cd outing. Had the flower kings edited this baby to just one cd, it would have been a helluva release (a masterpiece even). As it stands however in its current form, it deserves no more than 3,5 stars. What I did with this album to in order to appreciate it better, is that I condenced it myself to just one 75 minutes cd. Needles to say the result was a far more consistent and enjoyable album. I strongly urge everyone to do this (come on, the price of this 2cd release isn't that high anyway, it's more like a little more expensive single cd release.)