New Porcupine Tree Album

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To those that are interested, apparently you can download the video for "Time Flies" for free from the iTunes store.  I don't know how long it will last but it was there today.

Enjoy

No, why, don't mind my rantings, at least. For my opinion the album starts of a litte bland but picks up speed on the second half. Time Flies is a nice homage to Pink Floyd.

Ok, I think you're right. It was just a drunken theory I had. Sorry lads. 

Edited by Rottenhat - October 17 2009 at 23:12

Yes, you really are. The two pictures are completely different, and blocking the camera with your hand is extremely common. Any time someone does some sort of expose of something, the employees/members of whatever it is they're exposing always do that because they don't want to be filmed. I think the cover is invoking a bystander to a crime/accident who doesn't want to be on TV, which I suppose is less common but still makes sense.

Rottenhat wrote:   I begin to wonder... was that gesture in one of the videos made by one of the school shooters in Finland?  Can it be so or is my memory failing me? I won't bother to look up the videos of that horrible thing.

Putting your hand in front of the camera because you don't want to be filmed is a very common thing, I doubt he was thinking of that at all.

I get a strange feeling of Deja Vu looking on the cover picture of 'The Incident'? Where did I see that gesture with the hand in front of the camera?

Edited by Rottenhat - October 17 2009 at 11:55

Currently on about my 8th listen and I'm loving it.  Wilson and his band are as good as ever and that's saying a lot.  They seem totally unaffected by current trends and just make the best music they can.  Call me a fanman if you like but it more than meets my high expectations.  Their attention to the sound quality and ambience they produce is extraordinary in and of itself.  Best album I've heard in over two years.

Well, I've still got to listen to it more, but I find it just about as disappointing as the previous album.  Though that's not to say I don't enjoy it, I do.  I just think it's more of the same.  I'd put this one maybe slightly above the last album, which was my least favorite PTree album (I've not heard anything before Up the Downstair, however).

Funny, the parts some are calling "filler" I think are some of the best parts of the album......or would have been if they'd been developed a bit more into stand alone songs. I really don't hear this album as a single piece of music, more a concept album I think (like the Wall or Dark Side).  Though since concept albums are meant to be heard as a whole, it may amount to the same thing.  Still, nobody usually thinks of concept albums as a single song.

Anyway, not a bad album at all, probably 3 stars for me.  I'll give it  a few more weeks though and it may gain (or lose) a star.

Dalezilla wrote: I love how people express their opinions as fact.

No. That's WRONG.

Ricochet wrote: Then you simply meant to say the bubbling mixed opinions around here reflect how mixed the quality of the album is considered. Which closes in on a truism.

This is not what I meant to say ... please don't bubble my posts.