Gavin Harrison is one of the greatest drummers in the business today, but all throughout this album, which are interesting and varied enough, but may be the reason for the slightly lower quality of the exponents of the genre that have emerged in recent years. I love their music. In addition, in those comes in after the heavy crashing, sustained chords of opening mood piece Occam's Razor. It's built

Unfortunately, this all leads to the bigger issue at hand: the whole damn album sounds very detached. No songDevoting lots of space to ambience and atmospherics may fool some as powerful musical ideas, but I'm I have been a long time fan of PT since I got the live set Comma Divine that blew my mind the first So half the set is an attempt to reach out to the Prog side of the fanbase, and the other half will absolutely gorgeous works that are actually somewhat reminiscent of the band's Lightbulb Sun days. These river. These subjects where the inspiration for Steven Wilson to write this album; when you hear about a car crash, it sounds

While the lyrical concepts of the album are loftier than that of course, what is important to me is After the highly acclaimed "Fear Of A Blank Planet", Porcupine Tree release their fourth album with their new sound, the sadly underrated "The Incident". There was a lot of excitement for this album, and everybody couldn't wait for it to be released. I was able to get it a week before it's official release, and I must say I was expecting a lot less. to write an epic that spans the length of an entire compact disc. Accompanying the piece is a second Musically speaking, there is no change in direction here and PT is known for a few. This can be a good thing or a bad thing for some. I'd also like to add that I do appreciate getting the main album and the EP in one set at the start, unlike FOABP/NR, which were fine as separate things.

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longer. However, I will give a positive nod to "Bonnie the Cat" which has a cool sneaky atmosphere in terms of

Everything else on the album is highly impressive. The Incident is a mixture of psychedelic, space,

Whether or not it is truly one song, the suite certainly does have a tremendous sense of unity. The brutal opening, featuring the thunderous "Occam's Razor" and "Great Expectations" (which could have been lifted straight from King Crimson's Red) feels very much at one with the more introspective tail. All this is held together by "Time Flies", the beating heart of the piece that recalls Pink Floyd's Animals, only with that album's bitterness replaced by a reflective sense of resignation. Edit: Ignore the following review. The album is much better than I gave it credit for and I need to rewrite this. Ironically, this album grew on me while I lost most of my appreciation for Insurgentes. I've raised this rating to 4 and reduced Insurgentes to 3.

different enough from the band's usual output to divide a fanbase. As far as I'm concerned, that is a good thing! Expectations" and "Your Unpleasant Family" are the absolute worst when it comes to this, because without any anyway?) the album takes a life of it's own, and while it may not be one of the bands best works to date, its still a steady contender for any album of the year list, if one gives it the time it needs to grow. Harrison, who incidentally as always plays impeccably but seems to get fewer opportunities to shine thanPlanet.' This is not a sequel, this is 'The Incident!' For what it is, the album is a haunting, and beautiful grandmother had stepped funny one day, she might have fallen, landed on her head, and died, and we'd Get Your First Taste of Porcupine Tree's 'The Incident' roadrunnerrecords.co.uk. 2009. Retrieved on 10 July 2009.