PORCUPINE TREE - In Absentia. Japan IEZP-56. HQCD+DVD-Audio

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PORCUPINE TREE - In Absentia
Japan MiniLP Edition (IEZP-56)

Séptimo álbum de estudio de esta banda de Rock Progresivo con influencias de todo tipo incluído el Metal. Probablemente su mejor disco, mi favorito al menos y el de un montón de gente más a tenor de los comentarios leídos en cualquier sitio. Aquí continúan con la línea abierta en Stupid Dream y lo llevan al máximo exponente a nivel melódico e instrumental. Caña y melancolía a partes iguales, con melodías accesibles pero sin perder su compromiso con el virtuosismo, tanto vocal como instrumental.

En esta edición japonesa en presentación mini-lp encontramos el álbum original en estéreo en HQ-CD más un DVD-Audio. En el CD hay una mezcla del álbum en estéreo con la lista de temas original.

En el DVD-Audio viene el disco remezclado a sonido envolvente multicanal, una mezcla en estéreo de alta calidad junto con tres temas extras, fotos y las letras de los temas. Además trae clips de vídeo de "Strip the Soul", "Blackest Eyes" y "Wedding Nails". A pesar de poder disfrutarse en cualquier DVD casero, lo recomendable es disponer de un equipo que reproduzca la parte de DVD-Audio con el 5.1 en alta calidad, o un software de PC compatible con este formato.

Tracklist:

CD
1 Blackest Eyes 4:23
2 Trains 5:56
3 Lips of Ashes 4:39
4 The Sound of Muzak 4:59
5 Gravity Eyelids 7:56
6 Wedding Nails 6:33
7 Prodigal 5:32
8 .3 5:25
9 The Creator Has a Mastertape 5:21
10 Heartattack in a Layby 4:15
11 Strip the Soul 7:21
12 Collapse the Light Into Earth 5:54

DVD-Audio
1 Blackest Eyes 4:25
2 Trains 5:56
3 Lips of Ashes 4:39
4 The Sound of Muzak 4:59
5 Gravity Eyelids 7:56
6 Wedding Nails 6:34
7 Prodigal 5:42
8 .3 5:16
9 The Creator Has a Mastertape 5:23
10 Heartattack in a Layby 4:15
11 Strip the Soul 7:22
12 Collapse the Light Into Earth 5:54
Bonus Tracks
13 Drown With Me 5:22
14 Chloroform 7:16
15 Futile 6:08

Codec: EAC-FLAC+DVD-Decrypter (ISO+MDS)
Tamaño archivo: 465.43 MB & 6.68 GB
Portadas: Todas a 400 dpi.

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Japanese mini-lp edition of Porcupine Tree 7th studio album.

Along with the Cd, in HQ-CD format and a new mix of the album, comes a DVD-Audio with a stereo and a 5.1 mix, both in high resolution 24 bit audio. The DVD has a lot of bonus like lyrics, pictures, three videos and three bonus tracks. It's 100% playable in any DVD player but it is highly recommended to use a DVD-Audio player for enjoying the high resolution mix or a compatible software and sound card.

From RateYourMusic:
The most balanced, most original, fully realized, and therefore best Porcupine Tree album. Everything they do well, they do exceedingly well here, and they allow equal space for everything. The band's prog influence is made screamingly obvious all over the place, of course - "Lips of Ashes" and "Heartattack in a Layby" both sound like they were lifted straight off of The Wall, while "Gravity Eyelids" uses some Yes-type keyboards; on the other hand, "Wedding Nails" (with a cool tricky drum part!) brings the band's more modern metal influence out to the front, while ".3" sounds like a hybrid of Opeth and Radiohead.

So what makes Porcupine Tree more than the sum of their influences, you ask? In the case of this album, it's how well they fuse them into something far more accessible than anything any of those bands ever did. For instance, resident masterpiece "Trains" is structurally complex, jumping from a modern, alternative rock-flavored acoustic/electric part (the acoustic/electric welding, incidentally, is also very Porcupine Tree - bands like Yes and Opeth use acoustic guitars pretty frequently, but not in the way Porcupine Tree does, where they underpin the electric melody) to a retro, mellotron-driven chorus, from there to an incredible vocal interlude, and from there to of all things a banjo solo that they slot in perfectly. But each of these individual parts, right down to the guitar solo, is concise, catchy, and highly disciplined. More than any other band I've ever heard, these guys know how to wield "progressive" and "accessible" into something original, complete, and amazing. Check out how "Prodigal" and "Blackest Eyes," not coincidentally my two other favorites, do something similar, switching from prog to metal and keeping the song and everything that goes with it close at hand. You don't often get that in either prog or metal bands. And listen for Mikael Akerfeldt in "Prodigal!"

Porcupine Tree, however, has a real way with hooks. "The Sound of Muzak?" Great song! Nice how it jumps from something moody and atmospheric, almost with an electronic influence, to this top-notch catchy chorus. "The Creator Has a Mastertape?" Also great! It rolls along with some sort of weirdo time signature (Gavin Harrison is the fucking MAN, my friends) and has weird skronky guitars that might kind of be metal but sound more like what I like to call "skronk," but unlike a lot of skronky songs, it's also quite catchy! Aw yeah. Hooks, I like 'em, I do. Even the instrumental "Wedding Nails," besides being the obligatory "let's show off how well we can play"-type prog instrumental (and make no mistake, these guys play like motherfuckers) has a bunch of killer hooks to keep me interested. It goes to show just how well catchiness bolsters complexity - for me, tossing a solid hook of some sort or other into a complex piece of music adds yet another layer of craft to the mix, so we come out with something like "Strip the Soul," which sprawls out to seven minutes but doesn't FEEL like it's seven minutes long, on account of coming up with all kinds of cool stuff. Shit, they even make the obligatory pseudo-new age prog rock ballad (here it's "Collapse the Light into Earth") work out.

You know, I usually quite like Porcupine Tree in the first place, but it's the Stupid Dream/Lightbulb Sun/this sucker trilogy that really keeps me coming back to them, because that's where they really seem to stake out their own territory as the most accessible progressive rock band since Pink Floyd. The prog and pop elements here balance each other out perfectly as far as I'm concerned - the brainlessness of the worst pop and the insane overindulgence of the worst prog are both locked out by the half-and-half thing. Plus, the occasional metal elements (more common on other albums) add yet another tasty and well-placed element to this stew. So congratulations, Porcupine Tree! You've made yourself a great album out of seemingly disparate elements!

Track picks: "Blackest Eyes," "Trains," "The Sound of Muzak," "Prodigal," ""The Creator Has a Mastertape," "Strip the Soul"

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