DEADWING

I've dipped into the Porcs for a while now, being especially interested in In Absentia, with its spacey moments and heavier sounds. My first listening to Deadwing resulted in disappointment - and I'm not sure why -as this has been a real grower.

Personally, I like the more ambient and electronic - blips - thing they do. Skipping past the rigid conformity of deadwing with its embarrassing spoken Maerican stuff and the crassness of Shallow and Halo, there is much beauty to be found in lazarus, Meeotron Scratch, and the quite sublime Arriving Somewhere But Not here. The shift from ambient to heavy and back again is extremmely clever and subtle and makes beautiful, powerful listening. Is it me, or is ther a pattern in this type of music developing? Compare this track to Pineapple Thief's Remember Us and Archive's Again. There's this kind of Radiohead influence stretched into a lovely long song in each case, combned with a smidgeon of Floyd.

I also like Glass Arm Shattering as a dreamy finale - fans of PT please stick with this one and play over - there are some moment s that are among Steve Wilson's finest.

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