Steven Wilson, Briton, mastermind of the bands PORCUPINE TREE, NO MAN, BLACKFIELD, Bass Communion and IEM, talented guitarist, keyboardist, singer, sound wizard and producer (including with OPETH, MARILLION or FISH), grazing also on his first solo album in various districts and delivers musical with INSURGENTES from a representative retrospective of his many, above musical projects. And therefore also the music direction withdraws actually each drawer. I would INSURGENTES as art-rock call in the best tradition of z. B. PINK FLOYD that usually a concept to basically put most of their albums, where the musical and instrumental implementation always subordinate.
In this respect I would also INSURGENTES called concept album, because the mood is self-contained - despite all the differences of style - and because no song somehow seems inappropriate. Here WILSON realized once more his musical vision, without chumming to mass-listening habits, and so that he gladdens the heart of each and every Prog-Rockers viewfinder musical dreams.
Perfect to catchy pop rock (Harmony Korine) adds the concept together with a soul-stirring ballads (VENENO PARA Las Hadas and INSURGENTES), driving Prog (Salvaging), Jazz-Metal (NO TWILIGHT WITHIN ...) and other titles, which I stylistically can not assign. The prevailing mood is (the cover accordingly) gloomy, melancholic, sad times in soulful delicacy, sometimes threatening, sometimes almost morbid, then a hopeful light comes back on, accompanied by an orchestra and then snapped sneaky a nasty electric guitar after the soul ... the whole thing is huge, emotional and most convincingly in its wide-scale development of moods - less progressive Gefrickel or breathtaking intricacy.
INSURGENTES is perfect in itself and a buy recommendation for anyone who likes embarking on musical "soundtrack" and thereby does not care about any drawers.
