Album Rating: 4.5
Am I wrong for thinking the Start of Something Beautiful is the best song on the album?
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Album Rating: 4.3
^ That's an excellent song for sure. I love how natural the weird time sigs sound on that one
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Album Rating: 2.5
best of the run from in absentia to fear of a blank planet but still some extremely painful moments here
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Album Rating: 4.0
Arriving Somewhere and Open Car....waow....
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Album Rating: 4.5
Amazing stuff, really. A terrific work. One of their best.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Tonally this album is all over the place. It's not like PT have never mixed heavy and soft songs together, but tracks like "Halo" and "Shallow" are weaved in between are "Lazarus" and "Mellotron Scratch" without cohesion, IMO--at least on In Absentia there was an overarching atmosphere that held the tracks together. And while I really enjoy "Deadwing" the song, it might be the most awkward opening track on any of their albums (though I can't imagine another song taking its place).
All that being said...this is also the only PT album where I don't think there's a lull or a weaker track. And maybe that jarring back-and-forth helps to keep a listener's interest.
Plus "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" is the best PT song period, so there's that too.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Dark Matter
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Album Rating: 4.3
flowing out onto a tape
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Album Rating: 4.0
“Tonally this album is all over the place. It's not like PT have never mixed heavy and soft songs together, but tracks like "Halo" and "Shallow" are weaved in between are "Lazarus" and "Mellotron Scratch" without cohesion, IMO--at least on In Absentia there was an overarching atmosphere that held the tracks together. And while I really enjoy "Deadwing" the song, it might be the most awkward opening track on any of their albums (though I can't imagine another song taking its place).”
Completely agree with this. I read recently that parts of this album were intended to be in a soundtrack to some kind of ghost story, but the project fell through. So SW just kinda took material from that and squished it together with other stuff. Lightbulb moment for me (pun not intended) as this album has always made zero effing sense narratively and tonally, which is really saying something for the band’s discog lmao
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