Porcupine Tree In Absentia
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TVC15
March 26th 2023


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Trains slaps

Parallels
March 26th 2023


10146 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It claps too

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
March 26th 2023


3966 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

trve

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 26th 2023


60400 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

nerds

RadioSuicide
May 3rd 2023


2608 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

blows my mind that Watching You Sleep was just a throwaway song that wouldn’t see the light of day til 18 years later. So good

smaugman
May 5th 2023


5448 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Doesnt really fit into in absentia

Koris
Staff Reviewer
May 13th 2023


21146 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Trains slaps/claps [2]

RadioSuicide
May 14th 2023


2608 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I suppose not. Still, very nice song

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
May 14th 2023


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah thanks for bringing that to my attention, beautiful melodies there.

RadioSuicide
June 1st 2023


2608 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed, and glad you dig! Steven Wilson’s penchant for finding gorgeous melodies has remained unwavering across the last 30 years. His biggest strength imo.

veninblazer
June 1st 2023


16838 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I still need to finish his discog, he's wonderful

porcupinetheater
June 1st 2023


11030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Early Porcupine albums are underrated as all Hell too



Prefer On the Sunday of Life to anything that came after this at this point tbh

smaugman
June 1st 2023


5448 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

bad opinion

Zakusz
June 1st 2023


1559 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah Trains is probably in my top 5 songs of all time

kalkwiese
June 1st 2023


10428 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

“Prefer On the Sunday of Life to anything that came after this at this point tbh"



Radioactive Toy is great, but dude, are you fucking cereals?

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
June 1st 2023


3966 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Definitely understand that unfettered vision of very early PT sounds being something that stands tall above what came after. This band’s story became a little bit too amalgamous and samey over time and lost much of what it had in its infancy. That being said, the uptick in the quality of the music itself makes me sort of gape at that take, it’s so much more enjoyable to listen to than their first few releases. But preferences are preferences innit

porcupinetheater
June 1st 2023


11030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

All the weird psychedelic noodling and sound experimentation sounds a lot fresher than prog metal book 101 riff and ballad that they started doing on Deadwing



(I guess they started it here, but the songwriting’s better here than what followed)



The Incredible Expanding Mindfuck records are also great, ditto early Bass Communion

KILL
June 1st 2023


81580 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yea listening through PT from their early psychedelic pink floyd/ozric tentacle worship days through the britpop bliss up until this metal era is definitely an experience. on the sunday is a slight dud but other than that i adore those records, even this one. the band drop off for me pretty hard when they just kept aping the prog/alt metal sound. they perfected it here and every album afterwards feel like playing it safe. though the song anesthetize is just incredible

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
June 1st 2023


60400 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Deadwing songwriting mostly bricks on this ngl (forgetting about the prog_MTV songs for a moment)

but yes the early zany psych shit has aged much better. SW as a cute daydreamer >>> SW as a self-serious buttchugging concept nerd

ReefaJones
June 1st 2023


3645 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

SW is a little full of himself for sure. They were very good live though I have to say. Gavin Harrison is one of the best drummers out there right now



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