For sure the best album since "Space Revolver"! The Flower Kings relaunch themselves with an easier album with their usual classic progressive rock. Easier are the rhythms too that render this work more intuitive than others (ex.: Unfold The Future!). Beautiful the second and the third tracks with harder sounds in comparison of The Flower Kings standards.
Really an album to get!

Having read a lot of pre-release reviews and subsequently looking forward to this release I must say that I've been a litttle disappointed with this cd. I think this is partly due to the compilation The Road Back Home which showcased brilliantly the depth of the band both on shorter tracks and on some of their epics. Indeed it is on the shorter track on The Sum of No Evil, namely Trading My Soul that scores heavily here. Perhaps the band should stick to the shorter format more often especiallly when the seemingly improvised 24 minute track Love is the Only Answer never gets close to the more familiar epics on earlier albums. As for the lyrics, surely they can do better. Life in Motion winds the album up nicely with two of the bonus tracks certainly worthy of inclusion on the album-proper. A good prog album demands consistency throughout and it is consistency on this album that is missing.

What joy! The Flower Kings are the masters of progressive music. If you read the website, Roine Stolt gives an insight into what he was trying to achieve with this one, with hints of King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Tull all at their progressive best. Add in bits of BJH too - what a fine album. Thoroughly recommend the special edition, because the extra tracks are fab too - though God only knows how to get the media bits to work on my PC! Best track is problem Trading My Soul - with great vocals from Hasse Froberg. Can't get enough of it.