DEADWING

It's very hard for me make a review of this album. I really enjoy Porcupine Tree music and the first time that I've heard Deadwing it blows out my mind. But I really believe that any music fan has to listen an album several times before write or talk about it. That happens with Tool last album... 5* in almost every review... will we think the same about this album the next year?

Deadwing is not a bad album but if you compare it with Porcupine Tree discography is definetively one of the weakest. Sometimes sounds like a second part of In Absentia (amazing one, BTW) and sometimes sounds like a review of past records (specially Stupid Dream). "Deadwing" is not a bad song, half way between psychedelic and hard rock, but a little repetitive. "Shallow" reminds me some songs of the early Tool. "Lazarus" is a beautiful ballad in the stuff of some songs of "Stupid Dream" or "Lightbulb Sun". "Halo" is another insignificant song which is saved just by the lyrics. "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" is a long track -maybe the best of the album- that mixes almost perfectly the psychdelic PT with the heavy PT. "Mellotron Scratch" is another slow song, very interesting BTW, with great arrangments for guitar. "Open Car" is another interesting song, melodic in his own way, with some great guitar riffs. "The Start of Something Beautiful" and "Glass Arm Shattering" seems to be just one song, following the steps of the pure and original psychedelic sense of Mr. Wilson.

Great lyrics (specially on "Arriving...") and great work on guitars and drums (Gavin Harrison still surprise me) but there's something missing... a couple of notes, some ethereal synyhesizers, I really don't know. Maybe I'm just a purist who enjoy the psychedelic/space rock stuff even when I really love In Absentia, but IMO Deadwing is a very irregular album.

3*