Fear of a Blank Planet [Dvd/Audio] [Bonus Track] by Porcupine Tree (Dvd DVD-Audio, 2007)

Jvc Japan

4582213915587

12050158492

Porcupine Tree

Dvd, DVD-Audio

2007

Fear of a Blank Planet [Dvd/Audio] [Bonus Track]

Rock & Pop

On FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET, Porcupine Tree follows up its well-received DEADWING album with another highly ambitious outing. Fronted by vocalist/guitarist Steven Wilson (No-Man), and featuring keyboardist Richard Barbieri (formerly of the pioneering New Wave act Japan), the London-based art-rock ensemble continues its simultaneously heavier and more sophisticated direction, as embodied by the atmospheric and melodic "Way Out of Here," which veers into some crushingly weighty passages. Though clearly influenced by Roger Waters's Pink Floyd material, Wilson's distinctive and dynamic approach, which can be alternately understated and nearly operatic, carries FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET along its own path, making it one of the premiere prog-metal releases of 2007.

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Q (p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] dramatic, wide-screen, expertly executed, even genuinely thrilling rock record..." Alternative Press (p.174) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[W]istfully, sprawlingly melodic....Rush's Alex Lifeson and King Crimson's Robert Fripp add guitar texture to the disc's already monumental sweep."