DEADWING

Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is a combination of spacey, beautiful melodies, and heavy guitar riffs. The opening track, Deadwing, is an epic filled with both beautiful and spacey, and heavy, rocking music. Next, Shallow, is one of the two heavier songs on Deadwing, and has an amazing, almost Zeppelin or Sabbath inspired riff, which is not too often heard in prog music. The third track, Lazarus, is one of their most beautiful songs since Collapse The Light Into Earth; beautiful music accompanied by Steven Wilson's haunting vocals; drums pick up later in the song, giving it a more upbeat feel, while still capturing its mood. Halo is a mixture of the two tpyes of music found in this album, and all other PT albums, moslty heavier, but with a spacey part near the end. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here, the longest song on Deadwing, is one of the best ones on here, with excellent visual imagery. Mellotron Scratch, the sixth track, has a surprisingly inventive, very memorable piano riff, which is both haunting and simple. Open Car, Is probably the second heaviest song, after Shallow, but has a strong, beautiful chorus. Start Of Something Beautiful, the second-last song, is just average Porcupine Tree, not really that much different than the other songs, but still beautiful with stong lyrics. The last track, Glass Arm Shattering, is the definition of space rock.

Porcupine Tree maintain their usual sound on Deadwing, which is a concept album based on a screenplay by Steven Wilson, while continuing to get better every album. Not as amazing as the other albums, but still just as good, if not better.