Album Rating: 5.0

All of the lyrics on this album are based on one of my favourite novels Lunar Park. They are heavy handed and on the nose at times but I like it.



X-box is a god to me and sex is kinda fun



haha

Album Rating: 3.9

"Not saying that Steven Wilson is the voice of the generation that this album is about lol, just that the sometime over-directness and awkwardness of his lyrics actually end up sounding more like a kid talking"

imo the feeling of him attempting to put words in the mouth of that album's narrator-teen is a different kind of awkward to an inarticulate kid trying to express themselves

Terminally bored, shuffling round the stores / and shoplifting is getting so last year's thing

i just don't hear anything close to a believable voice in this, for instance (and yes lol the X Box line, though that's an easy dunk)

Album Rating: 5.0

Steven does sound like a total boomer on this but it's endearing. Honestly Sentimental is like the last memorable song about shuffling around a mall in a zombie state. Do malls even exist anymore

Album Rating: 4.5

Could be said that IA and this one are the starkest examples of Wilson at his highest peak with instrumental songwriting and lowest with lyrics. Thankfully I’m good at tuning out the latter as I have with many bands. Kind of have to if you’re a progressive rock fan.

Of all the later-era PT lyrics to defend, why even try with the writing from a perspective of an angsty teen ones, and not Trains, I Drive the Hearse, Lazarus, or the longer songs on DW. Wilson’s solo releases are more consistent with lyrics I find, until after HCE.

I like the lyrics.
To the point with a point.

Album Rating: 5.0

based

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't disagree, especially Anesthetize and My Ashes.

Album Rating: 3.5

Wow I came here to dunk on the lyrics but turns out everyone’s already done it for me.



Decent enough but never really got the hype.

Album Rating: 5.0

"I like the lyrics.

To the point with a point."



Basically my thoughts... they're a product on their time but at least they're saying something. Also people talk like the album is rife with these moments - the xbox and mtv lines are a bit oof but those are the only moments that stick out to me

Album Rating: 3.5

If Black Mirror made an album, it would be this.

I’d lean more to Mezzanine

Album Rating: 4.5

Why not both

this is so boomer cringe but it's fine

Album Rating: 4.5

SW lyrics have always exuded boomer cringe to me but I have learned to embrace it

I’m giving prog another chance. I’ve literally only heard the title track here and that was just because it was the credits song for the game Control. I remember thinking it was kinda cool… so where should I start with this band?

It seems like people like this record the most…

Album Rating: 5.0

"It seems like people like this record the most…"

Yea, it may be true, which is my case. This is my favourite album of them, despite the fact that I love them all.

Album Rating: 2.7

I would not start here lol the lyrics may finish you off before you even start. give Lightbulb Sun a whirl imo

Album Rating: 5.0

Great album too. You can also check in first place, Deadwing, In Absentia or even The Sky Moves Sideways of their more psych phase. These three and Fear Of A Blank Planet are my four favourites.

The lyrics serve a purpose

Album Rating: 2.7

yea and their purpose is to draw in every grumpy complaining middle aged man like a boomer bat signal