CD
Review
Porcupine
Tree
"Recordings"
Rating 96%
reviewed by Lesley Ferdinand
Recordings is collection
of non album tracks. Whilst many bands put their best stuff on the
albums and the leftover shite ends up extras on singles, Porcupine
Tree do things the other way around... I think that many of these
tracks should have been the first choice for the albums, but the
uncommerciality of these songs prohibited this for the ambitious
Porcupine boys eager for mass appeal.
The album
is mainly compiled from tracks issued on singles during the Stupid Dream
/ Lightbulb Sun era, but also contains two new songs
Buying New
Soul and Access Denied.
Highlights for me are Buying New Soul, Access Denied, Disappear, In Formaldehyde, Even Less and Ambulance Chasing. The other tracks are good too!
This CD is as good as any Porcupine Tree release, so diehard fans of oldskool progressive rock music, with a dislike of the musical technology that many bands use, will enjoy the natural instruments and experimentation that makes this collection divine.
- Buying New Soul (10.24)
- Access Denied (3.35)
- Cure for Optimism (6.11)
- Untitled (8.53)
- Disappear (3.37)
- Ambulance Chasing (6.32)
- In Formaldehyde (5.19)
- Even Less - full length version (13.55)
- Oceans Have No Memory (3.06)
May 2001 -
Recordings
(KScope/Snapper - SMACD840)