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DEADWING

Porcupine Tree

 

Heavy Prog

4.13 | 2225 ratings

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manu_sharma50
4 stars My overall rating: 3.75/5.00. A good album from PT, but by no means their best effort. This is, IMO, a dichotomous album, with some part of it being less prog-oriented (I am tempted to call it "commercial"), and the other being vintage PT stuff. This dichotomy also takes something away from this work holding together as a comprehensive album. Not the best album to start with if you are going to try PT for the first time. A track-by-track breakdown:

1. Deadwing - Nice track. Quite heavy as compared some of PT's earlier work, but contains good prog pieces. 2. Shallow - Useless. An out-and-out hard rock/heavy metal track that any of scores of current mainstream/commercial bands out there could have produced. 3. Lazarus - Nice sound, but cannot be called prog by any stretch of imagination. As another user commented, it sounds like something out of a COLDPLAY CD. 4. Halo - Ok. Starts to incorporate some prog elements again. 5. Arriving somewhere but not here - Great song, marred by an inexplicable 30-45 second heavy metal riff in the middle, which IMO is completely incongruous with the general tone of the song. Could have been a classic, but for this. 6-9. Vintage PT stuff. All these 4 tracks are very nice ("Mellotron Scratch" could have been improved a tad bit though - it is too one-toned at times). "The Start of Something Beautiful" is my favourite track on this album, by some distance. Truly something beautiful.

I am still puzzled about the few commercial-sounding elements of this album. I wonder if PT just ran out of ideas and used them as fillers, or if they might be preparing to increase their popularity in the U.S. by incorporating mainstream-sounding stuff in their works (especially given that the release of this album coincides with their first U.S. tour). Afer listening to the album multiple times, I am more inclined to believe the latter. I sincerely hope I am wrong...

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