STUPID DREAM

Porcupine Tree

Heavy Prog

4.00 | 1515 ratings

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Dont get me wrong, but when Stupid Dream came out it was a massive dissapointment to me, despite being a collection of fantastic tracks.

Unlike many others here, I discovered Porcupine Tree with the release of the Sky Moves Sideways, immediately buying all three of their first albums and getting to love them all. Then came Signify, harder and longer, anaother masterpiece.

But Stupid Dream is not a great album. It IS a great collection of tracks, but that is not the same thing. Up to now, PT produced albums that were all of a style, flowing from track to track, and appear to have been moulded from a whole. Stupid Dream lost that, to become a collection of songs - and anyone can do that.

The individual tracks range from the awesome Even Less, through to the suicidally depressive Stop Swimming - described by Steve Wilson as "Probably our most depressing track - Oh God what a thought!" and all are good - as stand alone tracks, but they don't hang together as a coherent whole.

I hoped the next one would be better...

MilesB | 3/5 | 2004-6-4

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