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Steven Wilson does know how to write good stuff, it's obvious. When PT entered the Hall of Pop Music in 2002 with 'In Absentia', I was aready aware of what they may achieve. Look at them now - a perfect pop band in prog circles, psychedelic, heavy and dark enough to be adored by teens (especially with these eno videos like 'Way Out Of Here') yet still proggy. What would you expect from a band which is becoming so popular these days? Exactly - a leader's solo album. Who cares that it sounds exactly like any PT outtake compilation (something between BLACKFIELD's pop songwriting and BASS COMMUNION's noise ambient effects, to be precisely correct), when you can get different editions of it! Collector's holy cow, yeah. There are some songs worth checking ('Salvaging', 'No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun' and instrumental 'Collecting Space'), but if you're not much into PT-related stuff, I wouldn't recommend it to you. It's not like boring, dull or monotonous (but seriously I would use all of these epithets if I could!!!) - it's just another Wilson's CD. To be honest, I see no point in releasing solo albums which sound almost exactly like your full-time band's albums...or maybe PT fans will see the difference.

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