Nil Recurring - Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree's decline

Advantages: An attempt by the band to broaden it's musical horizons
Disadvantages: Failed They created something in "Strip the Soul" they could not buld on

Okay the genre of this album is tricky, it goes along the lines of metal in general but the singing style is very much like older Porcupine Tree stuff (alot of harmonised singing for you who are unaware) and personally I feel that took alot away from the music. Interestingly the album itself tells a story which Steven Wilson the frontman is also having made into a film. This idea of a concept is appealing but unless you are told this info you don't really get it from the album it self. What this boils down to is; Are you a Porcupine Tree Fan? I am and I was really all that thrilled with this album and I really don't think anyone out side the Tree's fan base could enjoy it. It's musically weak and pretty much a lot of songs all near enough identical to Strip the Soul off their old album. Which if you liked you'll enjoy this follow up. If ...

Phelthew 04.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Deadwing - Porcupine Tree

Deadwing - nearly porcupine tree's best

Advantages: heavy guitars in places along with nice vocals
Disadvantages: not many 'anthem' tracks

as a fan of music, and a musician i feel that Porcupine tree are one of the best bands around at the moment. Their style is hard to pin down, as it seems to vary from album to album and track to track. Dead wing for example, for the most part, consists of heavy fast tracks acompanied by heavy growly guitar riffs. yet when it gets to the track Lazarus the scene changes somewhat. the heavy guitars are replaced with piano and accoustics. The thing i love most about these guys is the fact that the music is usually quite heavy had fast, where as the singing is nice and full of lovely harmonies. It makes a great difference compared to many heavier bands these days that decide it is best to scream down the microphone. Compared to other albums they have made, Deadwing is perhaps not the best, but it rates quite high in my opinion ...

salmonf1 22.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Deadwing - Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree's first official live DVD impresses

Advantages: Excellent setlist, and a great introduction to the band for a newcomer.
Disadvantages: the 'art-house' production may be off-putting to some.

Porcupine Tree began as a joke in 1987, with a mock-biography of a psychedelic band. Steven Wilson, along with friend Malcolm Stocks, invented its history, and Wilson recorded some hours of music to back up the ruse. But some of the songs he recorded had enough going for them for him to compile a selection onto tape a couple of years later and send them out to potentially interested parties. It was a few years later, after gradually building a reputation in the underground psychedelic music scene, that the first proper release "On The Sunday Of Life" saw light of day, a compilation of what Wilson deemed to be the best bits of this early work, quite surreal and definitely psychedelic! Meanwhile, Wilson was enjoying some success with his then 'proper' band No-Man, in partnership with singer and lyricist Tim Bowness, whose record deal ...

melinda3536 05.11.2009 (18.11.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere (DVD)