Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
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Artist: Porcupine TreeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Music Label: Lava
Soundtracks:
- Blackest Eyes
- Trains
- Lips Of Ashes
- The Sound Of Muzak
- Gravity Eyelids
- Wedding Nails
- Prodigal
- .3
- The Creator Has A Mastertape
- Heartattack In A Layby
- Strip The Soul
- Collapse the Light Into Earth
Music reviews of In Absentia
Music Review: The "worst" Porcupine Tree album
Rating: 3 Stars
IF YOU LIKE SPOCK'S BEARD YOU ARE PROBABLY GOING TO LIKE THIS.
In my opinion, this is the worst Porcupine Tree album. It is the only one where I have considered ripping a few tracks that I like and dumping the rest of the CD.
This CD is in the style of the new British Progressive pop. It sounds like the all the things that make Spock Beard and Transatlantic bad. The pop sound and the gutless, spineless vocal harmonies. It like a limp, sweaty handshake, or a wet finger being stuck in your ear.
It's really not that bad. But, when you compare it to the other great albums by Porcupine Tree, it is a major disappointment. It doesn't come close to the Sky Moves Sideways, Fear, or Nil Recurring. It doesn't even come close to Deadwing.
So to describe the CD to help you decide. The music is lighter and less complex than on their other CD's. The vocals are lighter (although the theme matter is not so light). It is not as complex or innovative. I am relieved that Wilson did not stay with this style for very long.
Description of In Absentia
Hailed by Billboard as 'cinematic...simple gorgeous', Porcupine Tree are unquestionably one of the UK's most inspired and inventive rock groups. In Absentia is their eagerly anticipated Lava Records debut. Digipak. 2002.After a quarter-century of punk and postmodern excesses, it's always something of a surprise to find young musicians who not only recall a past era's musical indulgences, but also revel in them. This Lava Records debut is the latest fruit of Porcupine Tree mainstay Steven Wilson's obsession with prog, a mania that dates to the late '80s when the "band" was little more than a fantasy, though one with a remarkably imaginative--if entirely fictional--history and bio. But that pipedream eventually became a real "alt prog" cult fave, with these dozen ambitious songs finding a focus that occasionally eluded the band on half-hour soundscapes like its underground hit, "Voyage 34." Tracks like "Gravity Eyelids" have a retro-psychedelic feel that would have done the XTC alter ego Dukes of Stratosphear proud, with Wilson's pure melodic tenor pushing it beyond the merely baroque. But the collection is also a strong statement of another crucial Wilson/Porcupine retro-sensibility: The album has unified musical statement. "Lips of Ashes" and "Prodigal" serve up the sort of impressionistic, harmony-rich musings that Pink Floyd has rarely managed since Wish You Were Here, while "The Creator Has a Master Tape" punctuates the rich harmonies of tracks like "Heart Attack in a Layby" with Crimson-esque metallic thrash and processed vocals. While the band's instrumental prowess sometimes slums its way into the free-form jazz noodling of past efforts, the album remains one of the band's fullest achievements. --Jerry McCulley
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