Despite the euphoria, the wheel has already been invented ....

I am pleased that many people can be inspired as for music and write pages and pages of reviews and in the end everyone has their own opinion and that's a good thing. Unfortunately I can not see the pioneer, visionary and genius, to many to find in him glauben.ich think he is an architect, a hobbyist who has closely studied the good old classics, this is now broken down into their components in Mr. Wilson , re-sorted and slightly beefed again zusammensetzt.Keine question, he does well-but if, like me and many others grew up with the music of the 60s and 70s and has indulged very intense listening to the music, then you see all these origins Wilson's ideas in almost any of his plays again and especially in "The Raven ....." Wilson happens to be a mediocre singer, not a gifted vocalist, and he's just a middling to good guitar player and no outstanding Saitenkünstler.Das is fact ! I like many PT albums very much, can not start as much with Blackfield, but his solo albums touch me at all nicht.Grace For Drowning was tiring but "The Raven ..." sounds even more "convulsive" even more "hard" , Take, for example "Luminol" a good but predictable track. Made solid craftsmanship, but with me nothing remains hanging. Everything happened before. "Drive home" is good to besser.Coole ballad. "The Holy Drinker" 70 more can not. "Pin Drop" annoying vocals completely contrived. "The Watchmaker" is the only convincing track of this album. Well done, good structure and great finale. "The Raven ..." is the second of the few highlights of this album Great track, very well sung, very well arrangiert.Dafür applause.
On the whole, this album is "Not bad," but as I said, the wheel has been around, it is not to improve but at most to design different and yet there remains only one wheel, even if it turns Mr.Wilson.
I'll stay with the old masters and the originals. That's my opinion, not more or less.