Porcupine Tree In Absentia
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Observer
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April 29th 2020


9393 Comments


I imagine deadwing is next

row, not a big fan of wilson?

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
April 29th 2020


47594 Comments

Album Rating: 3.1

I actually like him a lot, but at the same time he's the most frustrating artist I know. early era PT has some of my favourite jams (and Lightbulb Sun is actually one of my favourite albums) but I find alt-metal PT corny and unconvincing and lyrically appalling. but then he busts out a jam like Heartattack in a Layby or Arriving Somewhere... and I'm hooked all over again

Source
April 29th 2020


19917 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

xbox is a god to me

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
April 29th 2020


60295 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I q like this Row take for this album specifically

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
April 29th 2020


47594 Comments

Album Rating: 3.1

my face is Mogadon



re: this album, drop Strip the Soul and The Sound of Muzak (absolute shite both of them) for Chloroform and Drown With Me and it goes up like a whole point in my ratings

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
April 29th 2020


60295 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Chloroform would be a comf top 5 here for sure mmm

Observer
Emeritus
May 2nd 2020


9393 Comments


Hot take, but this doesnt hold a candle to the two after it, as well as the two before it. Quality ratio is way off here, fucking hell.

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
May 2nd 2020


47594 Comments

Album Rating: 3.1

I mean you're not wrong, although this and FOABP are in a dead tie for lyrical worst album of all time lol

parksungjoon
May 2nd 2020


47231 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

no way is foabp better than this



Xbox is a god to me

A finger on the switch

My mother is a bitch

My father gave up ever trying to talk to me

Observer
Emeritus
May 2nd 2020


9393 Comments


FOABP is at least written together as an album lyrically. This is kinda back and forth from cringe to ok with no connecting concept.

Im sure we could find worse lyrical albums than both, by far, that said.

parksungjoon
May 2nd 2020


47231 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

oh yeah definitely



but for the genre and accolades? theyre pretty fuckin bad lol

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
May 2nd 2020


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This is their best, just so consistently stunning and the most replayable for me.

Observer
Emeritus
May 2nd 2020


9393 Comments


Yeah they are. I was gonna throw out five finger death punch and praise steven wilson as a poet.

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
May 2nd 2020


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

FoABP and this have some fantastic lyrics though, very up and down in that department.

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
May 2nd 2020


47594 Comments

Album Rating: 3.1

only ones I like on here lyrically are Heartattack and Collapse, they're so outweighed by the lyrical awfulness of Strip the Soul, The Sound of Muzak etc. that its sadly not a contest

Observer
Emeritus
May 2nd 2020


9393 Comments


Collapse is a fucking pretty ballad. Not really sure the chorus means anything though... Kinda ambiguous.

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
May 2nd 2020


47594 Comments

Album Rating: 3.1

I really like the chorus line, especially given his tendency in the alt-metal era of PT to just beat the subject of the song into your head over and over, a little ambiguity is more than fine with me

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
May 2nd 2020


60295 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah, that song being vague and beautiful goes a long way here, great closer

Observer
Emeritus
May 2nd 2020


9393 Comments


I love the song. Coldplay wish they wrote it

SymbolicInTime
May 4th 2020


7380 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Muzak



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