Album Rating: 5.0

All of the lyrics on this album are based on one of my favourite novels Lunar Park. They are heavy handed and on the nose at times but I like it.



X-box is a god to me and sex is kinda fun



haha

Album Rating: 3.9

"Not saying that Steven Wilson is the voice of the generation that this album is about lol, just that the sometime over-directness and awkwardness of his lyrics actually end up sounding more like a kid talking"

imo the feeling of him attempting to put words in the mouth of that album's narrator-teen is a different kind of awkward to an inarticulate kid trying to express themselves

Terminally bored, shuffling round the stores / and shoplifting is getting so last year's thing

i just don't hear anything close to a believable voice in this, for instance (and yes lol the X Box line, though that's an easy dunk)

Album Rating: 5.0

Steven does sound like a total boomer on this but it's endearing. Honestly Sentimental is like the last memorable song about shuffling around a mall in a zombie state. Do malls even exist anymore

Album Rating: 4.5

Could be said that IA and this one are the starkest examples of Wilson at his highest peak with instrumental songwriting and lowest with lyrics. Thankfully I’m good at tuning out the latter as I have with many bands. Kind of have to if you’re a progressive rock fan.

Of all the later-era PT lyrics to defend, why even try with the writing from a perspective of an angsty teen ones, and not Trains, I Drive the Hearse, Lazarus, or the longer songs on DW. Wilson’s solo releases are more consistent with lyrics I find, until after HCE.

I like the lyrics.
To the point with a point.

Album Rating: 5.0

based

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't disagree, especially Anesthetize and My Ashes.