Retropolis

by The Flower Kings

Retropolis cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 May 1996
  • Label: Foxtrot
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 1:09:19
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Tomas Bodin, Ulf Wallander, Michael Stolt, Don Azzaro

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Roine Stolt's prolific Swedish ensemble delivered a highly uplifting, incredibly sprawling homage to the golden era of 1970s progressive rock. The intensely complex, vintage-sounding compositions prominently feature soaring electric guitar solos, heavy mellotron use, and highly elaborate, suite-like song structures. It established the collective as one of the most technically proficient and dedicated revivalist acts in the European symphonic prog scene.

Genres

Descriptors: fantasy, melodic, progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Rhythm Of Life (0:32)
  2. Retropolis (11:10)
  3. Rhythm Of The Sea (6:12)
  4. There Is More To This World (10:15)
  5. Romancing The City (0:57)
  6. The Melting Pot (5:45)
  7. Silent Sorrow (7:42)
  8. The Judas Kiss (7:43)
  9. Retropolis By Night (3:18)
  10. Flora Majora (6:50)
  11. The Road Back Home (8:55)

Credits

  • The Flower Kings - primary artist
  • Per 脛leskog - artwork [front cover art]
  • Michael Stolt - bass
  • Jaime Salazar - drums [drum kit], percussion
  • Hasse Bruniusson - percussion [drumkit 10], drums [drum kit], percussion
  • Hasse Fr枚berg - guest, voice
  • Ulf Wallander - guest, soprano saxophone

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