Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Been listening to Man of the people for half the day

Album Rating: 3.5

Man of the People is great yeah

Album Rating: 2.0

it's the only song i come back to

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

As per usual the more you listen (as was the case with To The Bone) the apparent change in sound and style slowly starts eroding away and you hear very typical SW Songwriting traits



How do i explain, Personal Shopper is so typical SW, sure electronic beats and some backing vocals hide it as something else, but if you are very familiar with PTree back catalogue, you will note many old songs (especially Voyage 34) which have so many of the traits of Personal Shopper, including voice overs, slow dreamy bridge, long drawn out intro. I really think PS is a quitessential Steven Wilson song. (Just disguised a little)



Count of Unease too i could see being the closer to stupid dream or an album like that.



Self sounds like songs hes dont before such as Index and Song of I.



12 Things i forgot sounds more like SW Penned songs from blackfield project, but again still similar to something like The Rest Will Flow.



Man of the People is also akin to songs like No Part of Me, Your Unpleasant Family, mayb even a little of My Ashes.



So i really think once you get past the red herrings of the electro music, or falsetto, or whatever, you still deep down have a collection of songs that are just all in all very Steven Wilson.

Album Rating: 4.0

"As per usual the more you listen (as was the case with To The Bone) the apparent change in sound and style slowly starts eroding away and you hear very typical SW Songwriting traits"



So true. What was originally jarring about this album not sounds like a fairly natural progression for Steven. The way it's produced and progresses is absolutely a SW album.

Unfortunately it seems people have this phobia and series of walls and up against anything electronic/pop oriented (or anything that isn't guitar-based and 10+ minutes long). Strange as an entire half of PT's discography sounded much like this. I knew the SW fanbase could be bad but I couldn't believe the boomer ass takes I've been seeing.

Of course the album has flaws and fair criticisms. It's def satirical and a lot of it is SW taking the piss with himself (the marketing scheme was hilarious), but it doesn't always hit the mark/go as far as it should. Also Personal Shopper is still so questionable to me after all this time lol.

Otherwise, the biggest crime this album commits is coming after The Raven and HCE.

Album Rating: 2.5

"Unfortunately it seems people have this phobia and series of walls and up against anything electronic/pop oriented (or anything that isn't guitar-based and 10+ minutes long)"



From what I've seen, this is getting the most hate by pop/electronic and more modern music in general kind of people, while prog fans in general seem to show a slightly more positive opinion towards it

I love electronic and pop, this is terrible from both perspectives

Album Rating: 2.5

It's pretty bad yeah, but I also think part of the hate from pop fans comes from the fact that it is made solely by Wilson, a pretentious guy that comes from a genre as "bad and pretentious" as prog

yeah it would be a 1.5 if it was made by someone else

Album Rating: 2.0

fair

It's just too boring.

Hi sput prog fam, long time no see. Nothing to bring us all together like taking a crap on our modern prog posterboy!

I was not going to bother but I got the TV ad and died laughing as the ad self-promotes as the "OK Computer for the Amazon generation" like what don't make me barf lol

Feast on the cringe: https://youtu.be/aQQwxoLbgHs

"OK Computer for the Amazon generation"

Ho

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Fuck

Watched again and it says Amazon "age" but that's almost more cringey.

Album Rating: 4.0

"From what I've seen, this is getting the most hate by pop/electronic and more modern music in general kind of people, while prog fans in general seem to show a slightly more positive opinion towards it"

Really strange, any of the detracting comments under everything he's been posting on social media seems to be the exact opposite. Just perspective I guess

"I love electronic and pop, this is terrible from both perspectives"

This is fine because at least you aren't saying "this is terrible BECAUSE it's pop"

Album Rating: 2.5

@Django, I think MrSir was talking about the site, not in general. But as someone who really has fun with TtB and loved Blackfield and his pop sensibilities throughout his career, it's not that I hate THE POP, it's that this time it doesn't connect with me emotionally and mentally.



The lyrics are near attrocious at times (to me, mind you), not because they lack proper syntax or wording, but because their approach is so radically different and detached to mine that I can't find anything relatable.



''Note's Reviews'' video-review tackles exactly that issue while praising the music to an extent, while our own MercurytoHell on his ''Kaboom! Reviews'' on YT actually finds it incredible.



Opinions, opinions. But the ''haters' side'' is not at all homogenous. It's not ''muh prog''.

"Watched again and it says Amazon "age" but that's almost more cringey"

Imagine being conceited enough to sign off on that promo tag lol

i'd be pretty chuffed if someone epitheted me with "for the amazon age"
trashblurbs FTAA here we come

Yeah that part isn't even flattering and then the first part is just straight up delusional

I have my gripes with ok comp on a personal preference level but it has earned its quintessential status, this is an Adam Sandler Netflix Original compared to OK Comp and there isn't even a second of impending future that it will ever enjoy even a fraction of that albums influence or critical acclaim