Album Rating: 4.5

Wait, it doesn’t?

I can see it. I just have a real gripe when comparisons are made between two separate bodies of material instead of viewing/listening to it as it is.

Album Rating: 4.0

been listening to this band for over a decade and i just figured out today that this album came after in absentia. always made sense to me as a transitional album between lightbulb sun and in absentia. wild

Album Rating: 3.9

it's bc they went off the morgue metal deep end with IA, realised that a lot of it kinda sucked and then got back to making good music again x

Album Rating: 3.5

Great album for sleepy time.

Album Rating: 4.0

Arriving Somewhere is top 3 PT, easy.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, seems they really did pare back that influence quite a bit here. Side note I’m listening to drown with me b side from in absentia and it rules

Album Rating: 3.9

Drown With Me is a dec b-side, but the woke take is that Chloroform is the best PT track from that whole year

Album Rating: 3.5

Arriving and Lazarus are some of the best PT

The rest ranges from great tunes to snoozefests. A very frustrating album tbh

Album Rating: 3.5

This album meanders and repeats itself muchly.

Album Rating: 4.0

just jammed chloroform johhny, it's great! softer bits remind me a lot of Signify. similar to how drown with me reminds me a lot of Stupid Dream



speaking of b-sides, how do we feel about Half Light, from this album? i really like the live version on anesthetize but the original leaves me a little wanting. still a rly pretty track

Album Rating: 5.0

Chloroform, Drown With Me, Futile, and Half-Light are all excellent. Prefer them to Shallow and Open Car tbh.

Album Rating: 4.0

same same. Open Car kinda hits sometimes but not often enough for it to be PT canon for me

Album Rating: 4.5

Tell me why the lyrics on Halo are literally indistinguishable from Marilyn Manson's song Rock is Dead. Genuinely some of the worst lyrics Steven wrote with PT

Album Rating: 4.5

I'll also say the remaster for this sounds SO GOOD

Album Rating: 4.0

haha i really like Halo but i get it



the version of Half-Light they did on the anesthetize live album is this band's Comfortably Numb

Album Rating: 5.0

This thing is just perfect.

My 1st PT album and the best in my opinion.



I remember I discovered this album while in a bus going to university (Just to check an event they had there) and I just looked through the window while listening to Arriving Somewhere But Not Here and cried (Though none of my classmates noticed)

Album Rating: 4.5

This album is a weird one, it’s like simultaneously choppy but also flows perfectly.

Album Rating: 4.3

Tempted to reinstate my 4.5 for this, it's been really hitting me hard these days



Mellotron Scratch might just be in my top 3 ballads by these guys, and that's saying something

Album Rating: 4.0

mellotron scratch owns