SELLING INSINCERITY

Anyone familiar with Porcupine Tree (and their classic album In Absentia, in particular) will immediately recognize that Selling Insincerity is highly influenced by them. Notwithstanding this, though, Selling Insincerity is a good little album in its own right, mixing a decent dose of riff-driven rock with spacey atmospherics. It doesn't do it quite as well as Porcupine Tree, but the melodies and space here are compelling enough to make the album enjoyable despite its derivativeness. There is nothing particularly ground-breaking here, and this is not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but sometimes I just enjoy a good melodic rocker, and this album gets the job done.