RE: Porcupine Tree (was Re: Mumpbeak)

“Signify” is my favorite PT album.  It is their rocking-est, most King
Crimson-lineup-III-y.  The albums after that grew more poppy and, while I
still like them, I missed that album’s ‘edge’.

 

PT’s earlier work was more in the realm of sprawling space-rock.  You can
tell how much Steven Wilson admired David Gilmour.  “The Sky Moves Sideways”
is a fantastic example of that period.

 

Wilson also became very involved with Swedish progressive metal band Opeth.
He produced and played on a number of their later albums (starting, I
believe, with “Damnation,” a great ‘unplugged’ album of bass, drums,
(non-wailing) guitar and Mellotron).  Their earlier stuff is in the epic,
multi-tiered Gothic (not Goth) death metal vein, and top-shelf if you like
said vein, but their later albums are glorious, with lovely singing, and the
incorporation of myriad musical styles... As a result of this collab,
Opeth’s material became laced with more varied musical elements, and PT got
their bite back.

 

If you like his work with Opeth, check out “Storm Corrosion,” a collab
between SW and Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt.

 

 

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