FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET

This album seems to me that is the best album of "Porcupine tree". After one decade creating excellent music and albums like "Stupid dream", "Signify", "In absentia" and "The sky moves sideways" among others, they manage to create this disc that has, in certain form, their own spirit. This album narrates all a situation in which the modern children and adolescents are living.

The album opens with the emblem song of the disc because it takes the same name. This song begins with one riff of guitar followed with a drum that happens to be the base of the rate of all melody. The song maintains more or less he himself style accompanies with a "shady" letter and I must add that in his form also he is shining. To all this stuff this song is the best one between the 6 songs to open the disc, and in addition it seems to me the best song of the disc. Score: A++

"My ashes" is a song perhaps a little underestimated but is very well united with "Fear of a blank planet" in spite of being much more smooth and slow. Score: A

It follows soon with "Anesthetize", that is a slow although also much more melodic song. In this song it makes appearance Alex Lifeson with a guitar solo that breaks a little with the scheme of the song, but without giving incoherence. This 10 minutes song makes this an excellent disc, and makes it an excellent progressive CD. Score: A

The song "Sentimental" opens with a keyboard solo. Is very interesting song, the melody and the lyrics are united in an excellent way. There is no much to say about this song, unless it is an very good song. Score: A+

I do not know what they were trying to do with "Way out of here", because it is a song that breaks with the style that came bringing the disc; the song is quite good in addition that it counts on the participation of Robert Fripp. But I do not see it located in that place, perhaps put it indeed to break with the thematic one but it seems to me that he was preferable to put a song with a united mood more with the one than the disc already brought. Score: A-

"Sleep together" is another song that would not have to be in this disc, I have the same opinion about these two last songs. They are quite good songs and that they have a coherence among them two, but not between the other four, and taking into account who the disc treats about a subject in specify and which it takes to a defined direction the two last songs would have to take same the thematic one that the others. Score: A-

In summary, this is one of the best things than Steve Wilson and his group has done in the last years.

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