Track Listing

1. Deadwing
2. Shallow
3. Lazarus
4. Halo
5. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
6. Mellotron Scratch
7. Open Car
8. Start of Something Beautiful
9. Glass Arm Shattering

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7084 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Album Description
Porcupine Tree defies categorization. This unique London-based quartet make unconventional, uncompromising music that qualifies them as Europe's premiere art-rock cult band. Porcupine Tree's cogent musical personality is a force to be reckoned with. Porcupine Tree's intelligent and accessible sound will appeal not only to metal enthusiasts and twenty-something dark wave fans, but will also fit in with today's more adventurous alternative station playlists.

Amazon.com
Before the Mars Volta made prog-metal fashionable again--with a little help from the Dillinger Escape Plan and My Chemical Romance--Porcupine Tree's 2002 US debut, In Abstentia, had already laid most of the groundwork. For the middle-aged British quartet led by Steven Wilson, '70s rockers like Rush and Yes (with whom the group toured after the album's release) never went out of style but instead left behind grandiose scriptures to be studied for all of eternity. So while tighter and more efficient in spots ("Shallow," "Halo"), Porcupine Tree's Deadwing faithfully keeps the technically proficient epics coming, peaking with multi-tentacled 12-minute "Arriving Somewhere (But Not Here)." --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews

Complete modern prog album
My discovery of Porcupine Tree just a little over a year ago was a musical revelation of sorts. Porcupine Tree has really inspired me, more than any modern band, with the way they can synthesize a wide array of influences into a completely unique and well-crafted album. Steven Wilson certainly is a musician and producer with extraordinary range, and myriad influences. His career as a musician with IEM, No-Man, Bass Communion, Blackfield and Porcupine Tree has spanned the range of electronica, ambient, pop, metal and psychodelica, and his production of albums from the raw simplicity of Anja Garbarek to the crushing death metal of Opeth showcase his amazing musical capability and attention to detail.

Porcupine Tree's latest studio album "Deadwing" defies characterization, with their trademark pristine production, attention to nuanced detail, and intelligent songwriting. I love Porcupine Tree's ability to easily switch gears from a straight-forward groove rocker like "Halo" to a subtle ballad like "Lazarus," and then transition to the centerpiece of the album "Arriving Somewhere Not Here" which builds from quiet ambient to full metallic power.

As with their previous album "In Absentia," and much of the rest of their catalog, the band creates accessible yet challenging pieces that still seem fresh after many repeated listens. Although incredibly talented, it seems to me that the band is almost incapable of showboating, and they prefer to let musical nuggets like the offbeat groove in "The Start of Something Beautiful" or the touch of the fuzz-wah solo in the self-covered "Shesmovedon" reveal themselves over the span of multiple listens.

Awesome CD !! My new favorite band.
I discovered PT through a friend about 2 years ago. Since then, I have bought everything they have done since the "Lightbulb Sun" LP. I have also seen then perform live. BUY THIS CD !! Excellent song writing, and one of the world's greatest drummers, Gavin Harrison. If you like this one, also check out "In Absentia", my favorite of all Porcupine Tree LPs.

Need I say more...
To their peers, superlative!

Arriving Somewhere But Not Here, need I say more?

If you don't already own this, well then, you're really not into progressive rock.