IN ABSENTIA

Ok lets begin with my favorite Porcupine tree In absentia. Porcupine tree's music can quicly be discribed with and combination of coldplay and tool. However strange the combination might sound i find it to be a pretty accurate description. Forexample the song Collapse the light into earth has a great mood and could have gone right in on the latest coldplay album. Not to say this is a bad thing, i love both tool and coldplay and the combination of the poppy elements and the metal elements has a really nice balance to it. Forexample although songs like the sound of muzak and trains have a somewhat poppy feel to it they are combined with some nice unusual accoustic riffs that bears some resemblence to nice bassriffs developed by tool. Also the lyrics are quite dark and disturbing and fits the song moods quite nicely. Although most of the songs Strip the soul, Blackest eyes and heartattack in a layby has a rather dark mood over them the instrumental Wedding nails provide a nice contrast with a somewhat more uplifting and even funky riff. There are certain metal elements in the songs but not enough to make it feel like a metal band. However there sometimes can be that the songs could sound a bit similar forxample the song .3 has almost the same bass intro as Strip the sould and the overall dark mood of the album can get a bit depressing or even boring but still there are some heavy parts in most of the songs...Wich kinda make it a bit awkward as some parts are great for relaxing to generally gets "interpupted" by these heavy riffs. But all in all there is not much to complain about and clearly represents some of the finest new progressive rock bands, and is something that all prog fans should give a listen to.

Pros: Original riffs,great atmosphear in the songs and lots of details in them(Forexample the car in the background at the beginning of heartattack in the layby sets a really nice atmosphear for the song and really can make you feel like you are experiencing it yourself.

Cons:Sometimes the songs can get a bit similar and the wish for an more some more drastic changes in the songs could have made a great effect.

For continuated exploring of porcupine tree i would recommend Deadwing. For similar music i would recommend: Tool-lateralus and Opeth-Damnation.