137 [AKA: ONE THREE SEVEN]

Bruce Soord's second album under the name of The Pineapple Thief, before they really constituted themselves as a band on their third album, offers us a more interesting and homogeneous work than the debut "Abducting the Unicorn"

However, he can be blamed for the shadow of Porcupine Tree and Radiohead being even longer here. Nevertheless, Soord's genius saves him from being a plagiarist with enough ideas to make the result fresh, interesting and diverse enough to support repeated plays.

It's a shame that "137" is such a forgotten piece of work, since songs like Doppler or the one that gives the album its title are compositions to remember. Too bad the number of filler songs doesn't let this "137" reach higher levels, despite being clearly better than its predecessor!

Best Tracks: Kid Chameleon (good work of synthesizers and guitars), Doppler (maybe the best song of the first stage of the group, a preview of what Soord would actually be capable to do in the future) and Pvs (another long track, with great keyboards at the beginning and very good guitars arrangements)

My Rating: ***