The Flower Kings studio albums listening thread

[SRS]

The Sea Within us excellent. IMO. Played it a lot this summer and enjoyed it more each time.

Jon

Totally agree - I was playing it daily for several months. "Time" in particular I thought was a brilliantly crafted song. I think they will do some more live shows next year but without Daniel singing these songs it loses some impact.

[infandous]

I still just fine The Sea Within "okay". I love Daniel's vocals, but sort of feel like those and Roine's guitar solos are the only emotional aspect to the whole thing. Just seem too slick to me, though admittedly I'm starting to feel that way about a lot of modern prog. That said, it's certainly filled with excellent musicianship, I just find the songs don't do a whole lot for me. I still need to listen to it more though, as I've probably only played it through 4 or 5 times so far.

As to the last two TFK albums, I felt they just weren't really up to par with their previous work. I like them well enough, they just seem to have lost the feel and quirkiness of the older material for me. Once again, a little too "FK's by numbers" for me (as well as sounding stripped down, which isn't a good thing for TFK's IMO), at least Banks. DR I like a bit better, as it does seem to really be them trying to do things a bit differently (coming up with most of the material in the studio, as opposed to having everything ready to go before recording). The bonus CD on DR is my favorite out of both albums.

[Zappyesque]

Also, am I wrong or does the term "cosmic circus" show up three or four times on various FK albums?

possible. what I do know is:

We got the track titles:
- cosmic circus
- cosmic lover

we've got:
- cosmic Christmas tree (love is the only answer)
- cosmic lover (well let's see...)
- cosmic circle (hmmm)
- cosmic bends (cosmic circle)