Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Roine can't win.  You can't please everyone.  The fact that ther are lots of dif opinions means that people take his art seriously.  I have a feeling BoE, Momentum, ? Will be my top for 2012.  What else is there?

zumacraig wrote: Roine can't win.  You can't please everyone.  The fact that ther are lots of dif opinions means that people take his art seriously.  I have a feeling BoE, Momentum, ? Will be my top for 2012.  What else is there?

For me, both the new Echolyn and the new Anglagard beat out BoE.  That could change of course, but those two rank very high for me.  The new Citizen Cain is up there for me as well.  I need to give the new Izz more time, but that one seems very promising as well.


Edited by infandous - July 26 2012 at 11:53

I got "Banks of Eden" a couple weeks ago and I can't stop playing the thing! Such a classic TFK sound, and "Numbers" is easily among my top ten favorite TFK tracks. A very welcome return from one of my favorites.

Anthony H. wrote: New Roine interview:

Awesome!

I especially liked the last few minutes where Roine was talking about sales figures, illegal downloading, etc with TFK in mind.

Just finished my review of Flower Power, unfortunately I rated it some time ago, so it doesn't come up on TFK's page or PA's home page.

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=481759

M27Barney wrote: Just listened to BoE - Again - this is definately a grower- because I reckon that if you were to grade every track - this might well be the most consitently brilliant CD that the band has produced...Other CD's all have at least 1 track that is substandard...this just hasn't got a weak track at all - The Anglagard CD must be fooking AWESOME if it's better than BoE........ I feel a CD spree coming on..... oh and the guitar solo in Numbers - after the sci-fi synth motif - made all the hairs stand on end - and that frightened the wife coz I'm a seriously hairy example of the primate homo sapiens.....

Well, that's just my feeling at the moment.  I can't promise you will like it as much as I do......and it's a very different sort of album, being completely instrumental and coming from a very different musical perspective.  Honestly, I'd be surprised if other folks on this thread agreed with me that it's better than BoE (I may not even agree with me in a month or two )

It's possible BoE hasn't "grown" on me enough as well.  Even though I've heard it multiple times, I don't feel like I've really been able to give the whole thing my undivided attention.  Though with past FK albums, it was nearly impossible NOT to give them my undivided attention when they were on, no matter what I was doing.  So I'm holding off on a definite verdict for a while.......


Edited by infandous - July 27 2012 at 16:02

Anthony H. wrote: New Roine interview:

zumacraig wrote: Heard on progzilla podcast that 3rd world electric is playing some festival in November. Hope this means a new album. Roine has said that it would more fusion composition and less Jammy. I'm excited!

Good to hear. Kilimanjaro Secret Brew was so much less than it could have been. Hopefully the second album will see the project living up to its potential.

I really love their songs.

infandous wrote: Anthony H. wrote: zumacraig wrote: Heard on progzilla podcast that 3rd world electric is playing some festival in November. Hope this means a new album. Roine has said that it would more fusion composition and less Jammy. I'm excited! Good to hear. Kilimanjaro Secret Brew was so much less than it could have been. Hopefully the second album will see the project living up to its potential. Perhaps, but I think it was exactly what they set out to do and pretty much exactly as Roine said it would be before release.  I'm not a huge Weather Report fan myself, and that album was basically a tribute to them, done in their mid to late period style.  I think it's quite good, though of limited interest for myself. Now, if they are planning to do something more in the Return to Forever style, I'll be much more interested in that.