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Originally Posted by Drew
This is the disk that got me into Devin Townsend, and I still consider it one of the best prog metal albums I've ever heard.
I played a couple tracks for my (americana/roots-rock/pop-listening) roommate Elizabeth, who despite all of her aforementioned handicaps summed it up almost perfectly. Halfway through "The Mountain," she looked at me and said, "this isn't the kind of music you can listen passively to, is it." Not as a question so much as a statement. She's perfectly right - it's not something you listen to while you're playing video games or writing a paper or something like that, it's music you lose yourself in.
Tim, if you're not generally into not-heavy music but you dig this, and you're somehow not deeply familiar with Floyd's "The Wall" or anything by Porcupine Tree after (inclusive) In Absentia, get busy. 
As an aside, this disc TOTALLY changed how I mixed music; the fact he goes for a thinner, brighter, sharper kick to compliment the bass while leaving space for the low tuned guitars, the millions of layers, the delay over everything... I pulled up an old mp3 playlist of mine once that I hadn't listened to in ages, a few years after buying this album, and a song came on while I was in the other room cooking. I remember thinking, "Hmm, I don't remember recording something that starts off this way..." before I realized it was "Canada."  |
Ah man im well into the floyd and P-tree! It was this album that completly changed my life and opened up the whole Ambient chilled rock and well as the endless amounts of chillout in general music im obsessed with these days
Pink Floyd - P tree - Sigur Ros - Enigma - almost everything classical style - aqualung - D Gilmour - imogen heap - royksopp... the list is endless these days
going to see porcupine tree in october hopfully if i can afford it after the guitar i jsut bought and they dont sell-out before i get the money
i won some tickets to see them do an exclusive acoustic set once but the venue pulled out and it was cancelled which sucked huge dogballs
"this isn't the kind of music you can listen passively to, is it." spot on pretty much
nicely put too