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PORCUPINE TREE - Stupid Dream (1999) [rated 4/5 by Nightfly]

2008-01-09 13:50:33 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
 
...Maitland lock into an insistent groove At eight and a half minutes Dont Hate Me is the longest track on the album and keeps the quality flowing. Its a laid back piece again strong on melody with Richard Barbieris trademark atmospheric Keyboard textures playing a vital role. The sound is also augmented by the use of Flute and Saxophone, the...
 
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Silence And Solitude

2008-11-16 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
...Maitland have written on this subject for The Times and the Guardian respectively. Maitland's article is based on the experiences that she has documented in A Book Of Silence , recently published in the UK by Granta. "One of the effects of enforced silence is a heightened awareness, of the senses suddenly sharpened. It is not just, during the...
 
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PORCUPINE TREE - The Sky Moves Sideways (1995) [rated 5/5 by progaardvark]

2008-01-04 12:36:21 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
 
...Maitland on drums, and Richard Barbieri on keyboards. Wilson had assembled this band because there now was a need for Porcupine Tree to perform their music live. All three new members had worked with Wilson on various projects prior to this (Maitland and Barbieri had been part of No-Man's touring band), so they were keen to the sound and...
 
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PORCUPINE TREE - Metanoia (1998) (2001)

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2008-03-20 17:22:35 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
...Maitland If there is one thing to rave about on this album, it would be Colin Edwins bass performance which is pretty damn nice. Colin and Chris Maitland both hold down the beat while the guitar and synthesizers take the lead work. That pretty much sums up this album well. The improvisation is not too bad besides the occasional over...
 
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Five Day Rain - Selftitled (UK Psychedelic "Monster" 1969)

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2008-04-04 08:20:19 by ChrisGoesRock in ChrisGoesRock
...Maitland had earlier been in Scots Of St James and Hopscotch. He was also in The Fleur de Lys in their final days. The album contained some adventurous pop compositions often with a taint of psychedelia but it was eventually put out as a private pressing in a plain white cover because no label was interested in it. Notable cuts are the...
 
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PORCUPINE TREE - Lightbulb Sun (2000)

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2008-06-14 18:01:40 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
...Maitland would be replaced in order to pave the way for the group to go in a new direction. All of these changes proved to be dramatic but they dont subtract from the greatness they collectively achieved here. This is excellent progressive music from start to finish Lightbulb Sun has a deceivingly delicate beginning with acoustic guitar and...
 
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Alphabet Soup II (P)

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2008-08-21 06:25:00 by Rho in Rho-Xs
...Maitland, establishing a four-piece lineup. The first release by the new version of the group, The Sky Moves Sideways, was actually something of a transitional affair, a number of the songs still being Wilson solo compositions and performances The bandmembers themselves considered the quartet's true debut to be 1996's Signify, another...
 
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PORCUPINE TREE - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007) [rated 5/5 by tszirmay]

2008-01-20 12:07:58 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
 
...Maitland was replaced 2 albums previous by the massive Gavin Harrison, a truly masterful session drummer who proved to me live that he is among the very, very best (hello, Neil Peart the Rushian and Bungalow Bill Bruford). The music has certainly evolved over the last 15 years, going from swooning psychedelia, to space-prog in the finest...
 
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PORCUPINE TREE - In Absentia (2002) [rated 3/5 by progaardvark]

2008-01-21 13:12:19 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
 
...Maitland departed and was replaced by Gavin Harrison. But the biggest change was the incorporation of numerous metal riffs into the Porcupine Tree repertoire. This influence has been attributed to Steven Wilson's producing of Opeth's Blackwater Park. To my ears, this change was sometimes good and at other times seems to ruin the song with...
 
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