''Retropolis'', released in 1996, is the second studio album by the

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band

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's 1994 solo album). The album's art is inspired by the film ''

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Track listing

Credits

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guitars The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, additional keyboards *

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

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, synthesizers, effects *

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(10) *

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- drumkit, percussion * Michael Stolt -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

;Guests: *

Hasse Fröberg Hasse Fröberg (born 4 January 1964) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and vocalist, currently one of the vocalists and guitarists of The Flower Kings. He fronted a handful of hard rock bands before joining them and currently has his own solo pro ...

- vocals (4, 7) * Ulf Wallander -

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, so ...

(6, 11) ;Production * Per Aleskog – cover art * Hippiefied Art (i.e. Roine Stolt) – sleeve design assistant * DCM – sleeve design assistant * Lilian Forsberg – photography * Dexter Frank Jr. (i.e. Roine Stolt) – engineer, mixing * Tegelmann – photography

References

1996 albums The Flower Kings albums {{progressive-rock-album-stub