Love (The Flower Kings album)

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Love
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Studio album by
Released2 May 2025 (2025-05-02)
Genre Progressive rock [1]
Length70:49
Label Inside Out
Producer Roine Stolt
The Flower Kings chronology
Look at You Now
(2023)
Love
(2025)
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]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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).

Love track listing
No.TitleLength
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

Additional contributors

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Badgley, Aaron (2 May 2025). "Spill Album Review: the Flower Kings – Love". Spill Magazine. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  2. 1 2 Weaver, James (7 March 2025). "The Flower Kings announce new album LOVE". Distorted Sound. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  3. 1 2 Lewry, Fraser (4 May 2025). "The Flower Kings' Love is a fully-achieved ambition". Prog . Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  4. "LOVE / The Flower Kings / Credits". Tidal. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 23 May 2025.