BLACKFIELD II

The follow-up to 2004's "Blackfield" was one of my anticipated releases of 2007. And just as with the debut album of this collaboration between PORCUPINE TREE's Steven Wilson and Israeli singer Aviv Geffen, this one took some time to take in, before I really started enjoying the songs.

When I first listened to the album it left me neither warm nor cold, I felt a bit indifferent... but I felt exactly the same with "Blackfield". And that's one of my favourite albums nowadays, so that's promising for starters..

So what type of music do the songs on "Blackfield 2" comprise? Well, the answer is quite simple: exactly the type of tunes that we came to expect from this band via their debut album. This means you get to hear 40 minutes of well-written poprock, albeit a bit more experimental than the average poprock artist. Whereas the songs on the debut album were more or less resembling the more mellow side of "Stupid Dream"-era PORCUPINE TREE soundwise, here the songs are more dynamic. There's even a true proggy track included with the like of Epidemic!

Overal this is a nice mellow, but dynamic rock album, that's not overly complex, but well crafted and definitely one of the most accessible albums from the new batch of releases. The music consists of lots of layers, but not as many as on an average Porcupine Tree track. What's typically Blackfield is the use of lots of strings as instruments to create this nice and breathing background.

The overall feeling I get when listening is that it's not as dark and depressing (overstatement!) as the average PORCUPINE TREE album, but there's still this nice overall melancholic mood, which I personally really like.

Quite a nice way to start his new year of releases!

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