TO THE BONE

Steven Wilson

Crossover Prog

3.56 | 622 ratings

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Hello fellow music lovers. To the bone remains among my favourite S.W albums along. There is a lot of criticism I've noticed regarding this album, maybe it's not for prog purity?

The opening title track has an absolutely great groove and a really excellent bridge going through to a unpredictable ending. What's there not to love about it, solid groove, solid rhythm, big fat drums/guitars and progressive enough.

Yes there are a couple of pop style tracks on here which is sure not to please prog purists (however the concept behind those songs are great) I like to consider our crowd pretty open minded with a love for good music, if not there's 7 other pretty strong tracks including same asylum as before, detonation and song of unborn which has a KILLER breakdown solo part mid way through which really developes in intensity. The amazing guitar solo I think was played by Dave kilminster.

While this album isn't the quintessential masterpiece, it's still a fine album. To the bone in my view demonstrates the pinnacle of audio recording quality and exhibits some of the finest vocal harmonies (nowhere now, same asylum as before) drum and guitar sounds out there and remains one of my reference records along side lightbulb sun and a king of blue from miles Davis.

I think it's a great listen with a nice diversity of track swhich is best consumed in 1 whole session so the succession of tracks, the track segues and concept is more coherent, like all Steven Wilson/ Porcupine Tree albums.

Aussie_Philosopher | 4/5 | 2022-10-23

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