Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
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Artist: Porcupine TreeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Music Label: Lava
Soundtracks:
- Blackest Eyes
- Trains
- Lips Of Ashes
- The Sound Of Muzak
- Gravity Eyelids
- Wedding Nails
- Prodigal
- .3
- The Creator Has A Mastertape
- Heartattack In A Layby
- Strip The Soul
- Collapse the Light Into Earth
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Free Music Review: One of Porcupine Tree's best works? Maybe....
Hit: 4 Stars
The majority of PT fans believe this is their best album to date and are in love with it. But I do believe it is over hyped. The album does not seem to flow as well together as the rest of their albums...and at times it seems all over the place. Here is a track by track detail:
1. Blackest Eyes - Its a really good opener...I like the pause toward the end of the song and the chorus is very catchy.
2. Trains - A spectacular song and one of PT's most beautiful pieces to date, a song that everybody should really like.
3. Lips Of Ashes - Amazing display of vocal harmonics....sit down and just listen to this song.
4. The Sound Of Muzak - Once again another song with a very catchy chorus.
5. Gravity Eyelids - Hard to describe this song or my liking for it. A lot of PT fans love this song, but I don't get too excited when listening to it. It starts off quiet and slow, then has a hard riff section then back to the slow part.
6. Wedding Nails - A heavy instrumental, and a great one.
7. Prodigal - The best song on the album in my opinion. It is perfectly scripted.....great song!
8. .3 - This song is up there with Prodigal, very nice and soft song.
9. The Creator Has A Mastertape - Very different from anything PT has done, very fast and upbeat.
10. Heartattack In A Layby - Another amazing display of vocal harmonics, this song will blow you away.
11. Strip The Soul - Great song, you can see where PT is heading with their future albums based on this song. It is heavy.
12. Collapse the Light Into Earth - Very slow/mellow song with piano and vocals....I think it drags a bit much.
Great album, but like I said the music is sorta all over the place. I am not sure if it was recorded at different times which could indicate the different sound through out the album. Or if the introduction of Gavin Harrison caused some late decisions to change some songs up (as the album was written before Gavin came to record the album).
Either way it is a fantastic album by PT, I don't consider it their best...I see it more as an experimental album for the band themselves, as they were trying to find the next direction (that was only imminent) that they would go in. But every PT fan should get this album as it does have several classic PT songs and it is an important phase in Porcupine Tree's history.
PS: This album also produced a few really good B sides such as "Drown With Me", "Futile" and "Chloroform".
In Absentia Poster
After a quarter-century of punk and postmodern excesses, it's always something of a surprise to find young musicians who not only recall a past era's musical indulgences, but also revel in them. This Lava Records debut is the latest fruit of Porcupine Tree mainstay Steven Wilson's obsession with prog, a mania that dates to the late '80s when the "band" was little more than a fantasy, though one with a remarkably imaginative--if entirely fictional--history and bio. But that pipedream eventually became a real "alt prog" cult fave, with these dozen ambitious songs finding a focus that occasionally eluded the band on half-hour soundscapes like its underground hit, "Voyage 34." Tracks like "Gravity Eyelids" have a retro-psychedelic feel that would have done the XTC alter ego Dukes of Stratosphear proud, with Wilson's pure melodic tenor pushing it beyond the merely baroque. But the collection is also a strong statement of another crucial Wilson/Porcupine retro-sensibility: The album has unified musical statement. "Lips of Ashes" and "Prodigal" serve up the sort of impressionistic, harmony-rich musings that Pink Floyd has rarely managed since Wish You Were Here, while "The Creator Has a Master Tape" punctuates the rich harmonies of tracks like "Heart Attack in a Layby" with Crimson-esque metallic thrash and processed vocals. While the band's instrumental prowess sometimes slums its way into the free-form jazz noodling of past efforts, the album remains one of the band's fullest achievements. --Jerry McCulleyHailed by Billboard as 'cinematic...simple gorgeous', Porcupine Tree are unquestionably one of the UK's most inspired and inventive rock groups. In Absentia is their eagerly anticipated Lava Records debut. Digipak. 2002.
2002 Album from the Longtime Progressive Rock Outfit that Includes a Bonus Three Track CD for a Limited Time.
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