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Blackfield — My Gift Of Silence
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 13:31
 
 Hands down a much better CD than their newest release..bluecshells wrote:

I'm adding this to my collection when money allows...getting to like it more and more each listen.  Thanks RP.{#Angel}

 



TheKing2
(on a small planet)
Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 13:31
 
oh, is that Steven?

Sasha2001
(Nowhere near a public restroom...)
Posted: Sep 26, 2012 - 20:24
 
nice tune but lyrics as deep as a Hallmark card.

Euskadita
(MX)
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 21:08
 
For me, this is the no.1 album of the 2000's

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 09:20
 

I'm adding this to my collection when money allows...getting to like it more and more each listen.  Thanks RP.{#Angel}



Canlistener
(Ontario Canada)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 09:19
 
Just saw SW solo show....wow does he surround himself with players!  Incredible show is all I can say.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Nov 15, 2011 - 08:02
 
 Deadwing wrote:


I think SW has done a great disservice to himself and also his long time fans by compartmentalizing his instincts and channeling his musical faces and moods into such strictly differentiated outlets.

ie

The hard stuff is now PT

The melodic melancholic stuff is now Blackfield

The experimental stuff is now SW solo

time was, PT had ALL those elements at the same time on every album.

(No Man doesn't really fit into this argument  LOL)

Still my favorite musical madman though   {#Music}

.
 
Thanks for the excellent analysis DW.  Just saw SW's solo act live. Hearing this for the first time - recognized the voice instantly and kept waiting for change of tempo or crunching guitars and then....read your note.

Not knowing nearly as much as you I would have to agree that perhaps he ought to explore all territories under one moniker - or at least on one album. 


Orodrigues
(Resende (RJ), Brazil)
Posted: Oct 14, 2011 - 18:51
 
Porcupine Field.

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 17:14
 

Good points Deadwing!  This apparent comparmentalization probably helps keep the musical creativity juices flowing.  But to be fair, the last two Porcupine Tree have had some range and different stuff that was probably written colloboratively in the studio.

 

How is the latest Blackfield?



Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 21:31
 
 westslope wrote:

Well, I'd say the Blackfield sound is lighter, poppier, easier-listening really.

 

Porcupine Tree has definitely adopted a prog metal edge and is more adventurous melodically and rhythmically. 


 

I think SW has done a great disservice to himself and also his long time fans by compartmentalizing his instincts and channeling his musical faces and moods into such strictly differentiated outlets.

ie

The hard stuff is now PT

The melodic melancholic stuff is now Blackfield

The experimental stuff is now SW solo

time was, PT had ALL those elements at the same time on every album.

(No Man doesn't really fit into this argument  LOL)

Still my favorite musical madman though   {#Music}

.



Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 21:14
 
 1wolfy wrote:
For me as well....I find their new CD lacking though.. robco1 wrote:
This album took several listens before I really warmed up to it. Now I can't stop listening to it...

 
 
I don't find it as warm maybe? More clinical? Hard to describe it. I feel you. Some of it I really like though.

I have heard some excerpts from SW's upcoming second solo album though, and, Oh My!

It sounds so promising.

It might be the best thing he has done in the last 3-4 years!

{#Cheers}



ski19570
(Northern Sierras, California)
Posted: Jul 26, 2011 - 08:07
 
Somebody was hurtin quite bad when they cut this CD but it is a good one.. I like the whole thing..

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 11:51
 
For me as well....I find their new CD lacking though.. robco1 wrote:
This album took several listens before I really warmed up to it. Now I can't stop listening to it...

 



robco1
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 00:43
 
This album took several listens before I really warmed up to it. Now I can't stop listening to it...


vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 14:43
 
 sirdroseph wrote:

{#Stupid}And you can tell them apart how???
 
Blackfield is the boring one. . .
 

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 14:29
 

Well, I'd say the Blackfield sound is lighter, poppier, easier-listening really.

 

Porcupine Tree has definitely adopted a prog metal edge and is more adventurous melodically and rhythmically. 



sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 02:15
 
 vandal wrote:

Love Porcupine Tree, don't really care much for Blackfield. . . 
 
 
{#Stupid}And you can tell them apart how???


Dave_Mack
(Making like a saw and coping)
Posted: Mar 18, 2011 - 17:27
 
Pretty good stuff. I'm at a loss for why Steven Wilson has PT, this band, and a solo project too.  They seem to have the same sound to me, though maybe I could tell if I compared them side-by-side.


TreborG2
(VA - which is..'somewhere' east of paradise)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 13:51
 
... Me Too ...
:)  {#Iamwithstupid}

I too thought it Porcupine Tree - esq .. yeah I have to spell it out else I forget how to spell.. but then the singer didn't sound familiar.. look at monitor 2, see the mini play list and not see P.T.'s name ... INVESTIGATE ... and here we are... a member of PT is in there and the sound is very good.. so have to rate highly ... Mainstream radio... loose your ground again..

fast_eddie
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 13:49
 
This is really working today, but not always


jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 13:48
 
 rtrudeau wrote:


Agreed. Volume UP.
 


cptbuz
(Sacramento CA)
Posted: Mar 03, 2011 - 13:48
 
New album and tour soon...go ahead google it!

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Feb 15, 2011 - 08:52
 
I thought for a second Blackfield was ripping off PT's signature sound. Kinda like it.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 18:46
 

Love Porcupine Tree, don't really care much for Blackfield. . . 
 

hestnoro
(somewhere between here and there...)
Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 10:46
 

I was good until the chorus and then lost interest...{#Doh}



mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 10:43
 
...two steven wilson songs in one morning?..c'mon, bill, you can do better than that...


Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Jan 15, 2011 - 02:35
 
Blackfield is a porcupine Astronaut!

PS
Haaaaaaa....!!!!

I had nooooo clue one of the guys was really
a member of PT till Bill just (!!!!) said it! Funny!


rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 11:21
 
 ERERER wrote:
Beautiful, gentle and powerful.
 

Agreed. Volume UP.

robco1
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 16:07
 
 nigelr wrote:

Agreed, unmistakably wonderful. Loving the drum work...
 
{#Yes}


wenatchee
(Duvall, WA)
Posted: Nov 29, 2010 - 06:19
 
How well do artists like Blackfield and for that matter Porcupine Tree do when NOT in the mainstream?  I listen to far more "net" radio now than "car" FM/AM . . . thoughts?

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Nov 12, 2010 - 21:35
 
Poets.

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Oct 28, 2010 - 14:04
 
A masterpiece {#Exclaim}

ERERER
Posted: Oct 15, 2010 - 15:15
 
Beautiful, gentle and powerful.

lattalo
(Beartooths)
Posted: Aug 25, 2010 - 21:47
 
 garycha wrote:
Perfect 10.
 
Agreed, perfect.


garycha
(Bristol, UK)
Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 11:14
 
Perfect 10.

peter_james_bond
(The Burg)
Posted: Apr 20, 2010 - 11:12
 
Hey, the song title is misleading. ...(runs away)


scooterdog
(Twin Falls, Idaho)
Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 06:46
 
I have the BF live DVD and it is quite good. Aven's band is ver very good. Quite different from the members of PT which provides their own unique sound. When you hear SW voice most would alway's associate the tune as being PT or PT light. I totally disagree with this as SW voice and playing ads a demension to BF but the music is can still stand on its own. I think a lot of this has to do with Avens writing as well and the part of the world he comes from that most of us , myself included have no clue what it would be like to live in.

emgi
(Hemel Hempstead, UK)
Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 06:40
 
This song is just beautiful.....makes me wanna cry!

Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: Feb 16, 2010 - 06:39
 
 nigelr wrote:

Agreed, unmistakably wonderful. Loving the drum work...
 

Pretty sure this is Porcupine Tree's drummer on this song.

katees
(Braunschweig, Germany)
Posted: Nov 14, 2009 - 01:29
 
Hey there,

the result off the "Artist Website" link is wrong: 
The Artist website is http://www.blackfield.org/.



nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Sep 12, 2009 - 00:54
 
 robco1 wrote:
Unmistakable.
 
Agreed, unmistakably wonderful. Loving the drum work...



jeepstir
(on the Potomac)
Posted: Aug 11, 2009 - 13:00
 
 crockydile wrote:
PT with a guest singer, that's all. Very PT. The jury is still deliberating...
 
Very true. I've seen them live, and I DO like them—they were quite enjoyable. But without SW we would never have known they exist. It's not that they're bad, they're not. But without SW the best they could hope for is ordinary.


Leslie
(Antioch, CA)
Posted: Aug 11, 2009 - 12:56
 
It seems I like everything Steven Wilson has a hand in. His compositions are unmistakable to me as well.

zaknafein
(Kansas City, MO)
Posted: Aug 11, 2009 - 12:56
 
 crockydile wrote:
PT with a guest singer, that's all. Very PT. The jury is still deliberating...
 
Not exactly. This is Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree, with Aviv Geffen.


Wizzuvvoz
(Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.)
Posted: Aug 11, 2009 - 12:55
 
quite a cool song I think.  Surprised nobody has made a comment.  This one barely qualifies as that.
meanwhile.......

crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Aug 11, 2009 - 12:54
 
PT with a guest singer, that's all. Very PT. The jury is still deliberating...

robco1
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Aug 11, 2009 - 12:54
 
Unmistakable.