DISSOLUTION

The Pineapple Thief

Crossover Prog

4.03 | 313 ratings

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Menswear
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The hottest band on the market?

Yes.

Pineapple Thief grew a ton of hair since Gavin Harrison joined. No more peachfuzz, the music is now a muscular but very gracious adult. Like Porl Thomson, Dave Grohl or Ian Mosley , Harrison is now 'THE drummer' that elevated a band to something better, higher or steadier. Although he's never overdoing it, his mind-boggling beats (and melodies?) are giving the band an aura of true perfectionism, something sleek and chic, that elevates everything and making it classy.

The recipe is quite similar to their 'Wilderness' album, don't expect any changes: more imploding than Porcupine Tree but still rumbling with anger at times. I like when the band is leashing out crunchier moments, unfortunately rarer on this cookie. PTh is good at what Porcupine Tree started and perfected until The Incident (that sucked the big one). On the other side, PTh is giving you a good following to that pattern but only with more eerie/spooky factor perhaps? The more you listen, the more you realize you're facing an hybrid beast: half-past, half-future but completely charming.

Whatever floats your goat, Dissolution is giving you a great time, no doubt about it. Closer to a pop album than a prog, it's short, goes to the point and cut off all the baloney elements of longer albums (*ahem* Roine Stolt). Are you tired of interminable records of 74 minutes? I sure am. Something epurated like this album is oxygen for your brain and won't test your patience. If they keep up like that, they will give birth to a mammoth of good taste and self-mastery. They are THAT close.

Who said shorter albums are because of the lack of inspiration? Not this case here!

Menswear | 4/5 | 2018-9-17

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