Album Rankings for 2016

Another year, another list because everyone loves lists.

A Few Words on... Steven Wilson - 4 ½

Calling Steven Wilson's latest release an album is a disservice to his previous releases. Despite clocking in at just under forty minutes, 4 ½ consists of six tracks and mostly consists of material deemed unsuitable for either The Raven That Refused to Sing, Hand. Cannot. Erase. and a re-recording of Porcupine Tree's Don't Hate Me.

Album Rankings for 2015

Another year, another list of albums with hyperlinks to ones I bothered to write about and ones that I listened to, rated and then either had no intention of reviewing or lost momentum to.

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. Review

I hate to bring up the subject of Porcupine Tree within a review like this, considering they've been gone for years now, but the band made such an impact to me, that every time founder and frontman Steven Wilson releases or produces an album, I find myself wishing for a grand reunion before returning to normality and the grim reality that it probably never will happen.

Album Ratings for 2013

Another year; another list of album’s I either managed to review or ones I intended to, going so far to score them but never getting there. I ran into two albums that ranked a nine (a first!) but album of the year goes to Sigur Rós with Queens of the Stone Age in a close second.

So enjoy this long list of titles and numbers and have an awesome start to 2014.

A Few Words on... Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)

With Porcupine Tree on a indefinite hiatus; all eyes are on Steven Wilson's third solo outing and whether it can top the surprisingly great double album Grace for Drowning.

Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion Review

One of my biggest regrets last year for this blog was never getting around to reviewing Grace for Drowning at the time of its release. In short; it was a fantastic album that improved on everything Steven Wilson had begun with Insurgentes and would was easily in my top five albums for 2011.

With another year, the ever productive Wilson has another release, this time a long awaited collaborative effort with Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt. The duo, under the moniker Storm Corrosion, has previously promised something unlike anything they have previously released.

Stupidly, I didn’t pay much attention to that statement and fully expected something that might be an epic combination of something like Porcupine Tree with Opeth or Wilson’s solo efforts with Bloodbath.

The point is, I was looking forward to Storm Corrosion and upon giving the album enough listens; I have come to two conclusions: