Love (The Flower Kings album)
| Love | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 2 May 2025 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock[1] | |||
| Length | 70:49 | |||
| Label | Inside Out | |||
| Producer | Roine Stolt | |||
| The Flower Kings chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Love | ||||
Love is the seventeenth studio album by Swedish progressive rock band The Flower Kings.[1] It was released on 2 May 2025, by Inside Out Music.[2] The album features twelve songs with a total runtime of approximately seventy minutes.[2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Prog | [3] |
| Spill | [1] |
Prog rated the album four stars and described it as "an album of fully realised ambition, even if the music occasionally moors too close to their British forebears."[3] Spill assigned it a rating of four and a half out of five and stated, "With their new album, Love they have come up with a prog rock classic."[1]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Roine Stolt, except ”World Spinning” (Lalle Larsson) and"Considerations" (lyrics written by Michael Stolt and Jannica Lund, music composed by Michael Stolt).
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "We Claim the Moon" | 6:34 |
| 2. | "The Elder" | 11:09 |
| 3. | "How Can You Leave Us Now!?" | 5:52 |
| 4. | "World Spinning" | 2:04 |
| 5. | "Burning Both Edges" | 7:43 |
| 6. | "The Rubble" | 4:17 |
| 7. | "Kaiser Razor" | 2:26 |
| 8. | "The Phoenix" | 3:35 |
| 9. | "The Promise" | 3:56 |
| 10. | "Love Is" | 6:02 |
| 11. | "Walls of Shame" | 6:57 |
| 12. | "Considerations" | 10:14 |
| Total length: | 70:49 | |
Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.[4]
The Flower Kings
- Mirko DeMaio – drums, percussion
- Hasse Fröberg – lead vocals, guitar
- Lalle Larsson – keyboards, Mellotron, organ, piano, synthesizer
- Michael Stolt – bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer, vocals
- Roine Stolt – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, production, mastering, mixing, engineering
Additional contributors
- Lars Hallbäck – engineering
- Jannica Lund – vocals on "We Claim the Moon"
- Hasse Bruniusson – percussion on "Kaiser Razor"
- Aliaksandr Yasinski – accordion on "The Promise"
References
- ^ a b c d Badgley, Aaron (2 May 2025). "Spill Album Review: the Flower Kings – Love". Spill Magazine. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ^ a b Weaver, James (7 March 2025). "The Flower Kings announce new album LOVE". Distorted Sound. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ^ a b Lewry, Fraser (4 May 2025). "The Flower Kings' Love is a fully-achieved ambition". Prog. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ^ "LOVE / The Flower Kings / Credits". Tidal. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 23 May 2025.