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Artist: Porcupine TreeBrand: PORCUPINE TREE
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: Lava
Soundtracks:
- Deadwing
- Shallow
- Lazarus
- Halo
- Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
- Mellotron Scratch
- Open Car
- Start of Something Beautiful
- Glass Arm Shattering
Free Music Notes for Deadwing
Free Music Review: Another masterpiece in the Porcupine Tree catalog
Hit: 5 Stars
It has been two and a half years since Porcupine Tree's last album, In Absentia and the follow-up is Deadwing. Porcupine Tree is a London-based band that somewhat fits into the progressive rock genre. As their ninth studio album, Porcupine Tree has chosen to release a semi-conceptual record loosely based around ideas generated from a ghost film screen play. Slated for a European release date of March 28 and April 26 for America, Deadwing is going to please the Porcupine Tree fans and should create a wealth of new followers!
There was a lot of speculation as to what direction Steven Wilson, front man of Porcupine Tree, was going to take this album; especially after the release of the first single and radio song taken from Deadwing titled "Shallow". Shallow has received lots of airplay in the US and to be honest scared me when I heard it. Steven Wilson described "Shallow" as, "a big dumb rock song, done the Porcupine Tree way." With a commercial and radio friendly song released a few weeks before the album, I was hoping that Porcupine Tree wasn't about to release a more marketable rock album. Well, you can rest assured that my fears and worries were so far off it wasn't even funny. Deadwing is chock full of great songs, save for it falls on the different side of standard Porcupine Tree releases yet it still hits the mark as another phenomenal release from the band.
Deadwing starts off with the title track, "Deadwing". Just shy of ten minutes, "Deadwing" is the perfect way to begin the voyage into the new album. Starting off with an electronic intro that hardly builds up the beginning riff that jump starts your adrenaline. This song is absolutely brilliant and holds some of the best vocal melodies of the album. "Deadwing" definitely fits in the Porcupine Tree catalog of epic songs and doesn't feature the standard structure of: verse, chorus, verse, etc. that most other bands compose. In fact, the song doesn't even feature a chorus! Ending in eerie noises, "Deadwing" progresses right into the first single off of the album, "Shallow".
"Shallow" is definitely the most radio friendly song on the album as I previously mentioned. Reminding me in a way of "Blackest Eyes" from In Absentia in regards to song construction, "Shallow" starts off with a heavy guitar riff which the verses are sung over transitioning into a melodic pre-chorus before the heart-stomping chorus. "Shallow" is an ordinary song in terms of current releases, yet it is a different song for Porcupine Tree even though it does have a good rock-vibe and is very likable. I'm sure a lot of fans are going to debate this song, but I like it none the less.
Are you a fan of Steven Wilson's Blackfield side project? If so, you are going to love "Lazarus". If not, you are still going to love "Lazarus"! As the third song on the album, "Lazarus" is a magnificent and beautiful ballad that would have fit the Blackfield release. I absolutely adore this song and hope to hear similar tracks like this in the future from the band. Whether you are a fan of Porcupine Tree or not, "Lazarus" is likable on so many different levels. Listen to it and decide for yourself. Regardless, "Lazarus" kicks ass!
Speaking of kicking ass, get ready to tap your feet because "Halo" in my opinion is the catchiest song on Deadwing. "Halo" begins with a captivating bass line that caught me off guard. Every now and again a band can compose a song that just grabs your full attention and won't let you go until the song ends, and Porcupine Tree accomplished just that with "Halo". This is definitely not your stock rock song, which is what makes this song so much fun to listen to.
I have read a lot of posts on forums and other reviews for Deadwing simply describing the fifth track as the song to buy the album for. "Arriving Somewhere, But Not Here" is an amazing song, and this is the reason to buy the album." Personally, I really like how this track progresses along through its twelve minute journey. Porcupine Tree covered almost everything within this song from a heavy section smack-dab in the middle to the light guitar riffs that begins the song right through the soft percussion leading into guitar solos and lead riffs at the end of the track. To say the least, I really like "Arriving Somewhere, But Not Here", although I think it is a bit overrated compared to what others are saying.
"Mellotron Scratch" and the ninth track "Glass Arm Shattering" are the two mellow tracks on the album. Either one of these songs could have showed up on the last three or four Porcupine Tree albums and fit the record. Both songs are good, not phenomenal, but good. I really don't have a lot to say about either one, except that "Mellotron Scratch" has my favorite outros on the disc.
From what I have gathered, I'm going to take a lot of crap for saying, "My favorite song on Deadwing is `Open Car'." This song has the best vibe between the opening guitar and the fanatical vocal melody that is played over it. My favorite line on the album comes from this song as well when Steven Wilson sings, "Being with you is hell." It is few and far between when I like the shortest song on the album, but "Open Car" is simply stated, "awesome", and has a transition right into "The Start of Something Beautiful" virtually making them one song. "The Start of Something Beautiful" is my second favorite song on the album and could have easily been dropped right on Opeth's "Damnation". There is a perfect connection between Colin Edwin, the bassist, and Gavin Harrison on drums and is reminiscent of the "Martin to Martin" connection between the bassist and drummer on the Opeth Damnation album. Another good selling point of this song is the instrumental section "starting" around 4:45 that is just amazing and "beautiful". No pun intended, of course! Anyways, if I was to give a reason or recommendation to buy Deadwing, it would be for "Open Car" and "The Start of Something Beautiful", because these songs are nothing shy of amazing.
It took me a few times listening through Deadwing to realize that I absolutely love the album, and probably is my favorite release to date in 2005. At the moment this disc is my favorite Porcupine Tree album and is just as brilliant as Stupid Dream and In Absentia. Now to the part of the review that I give you a whole bunch of reasons to get a copy of Deadwing! Actually, why even bother? If you have read this much you probably are familiar with the band and don't need any reasons other than the fact that it is the newest addition to the Porcupine Tree catalog! If you haven't heard the band before, well give them a chance and give Deadwing a listen to. I think most people are going to like this album.
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Porcupine Tree defies categorization. This unique London-based quartet make unconventional, uncompromising music that qualifies them as Europe's premiere art-rock cult band. Porcupine Tree's cogent musical personality is a force to be reckoned with. Porcupine Tree's intelligent and accessible sound will appeal not only to metal enthusiasts and twenty-something dark wave fans, but will also fit in with today's more adventurous alternative station playlists.Before the Mars Volta made prog-metal fashionable again--with a little help from the Dillinger Escape Plan and My Chemical Romance--Porcupine Tree's 2002 US debut, In Abstentia, had already laid most of the groundwork. For the middle-aged British quartet led by Steven Wilson, '70s rockers like Rush and Yes (with whom the group toured after the album's release) never went out of style but instead left behind grandiose scriptures to be studied for all of eternity. So while tighter and more efficient in spots ("Shallow," "Halo"), Porcupine Tree's Deadwing faithfully keeps the technically proficient epics coming, peaking with multi-tentacled 12-minute "Arriving Somewhere (But Not Here)." --Aidin Vaziri
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