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Porcupine Tree

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Michael919

One Deep Listen Review

Well. That will need more than one listen.

I don't know what I listened to. It's unlike any SW/PT, but somehow a little like them all.

Signature sounds and ambiance adds familiarity, but the songs are different in structure and melody. The signature, light breaking into heavy is there. Gavin's outstanding drum work is there. Steven Wilsons (SW's) voice is there. But it's different. It had moments, but it needs reps. There's good songs ("Dignity"), but they need more mental imprinting. It brought memories of my first listen of many great albums that were growers and that needed time to resonate. Not saying this will be up there, though.

I had low expectations for this album, but I thought I'd know what we'd be getting, although I was deliberately uniformed and resisted all SW interviews or a sneak listen to the pre-releases. I expected a bunch of unrecorded or previously unreleased kinda songs, with all the normal SW/PT sound and feel. Now, admittedly, that is a very wide range of sounds and feels. Common to them all is Steven. Band members seem to simply colour or influence (enhance or restrain) his creations. This album is outside of that broad range. It's an evolution. Not as much an evolution of PT, but more of an evolution of SW, with PT bandmates. These songs are very frequently sounding more like "To the Bone" / "The Future Bites" than "FOABP"/The Incident". It's like the former, but through a PT lens, and evolved.

Now, I will keep spinning to see how much I like evolved.

Four stars because I know it won't be a 5 or a 3. I reserve the right to change my mind, though.

Michael919 | 4/5 | 2022-6-24

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