Here's a review of the CD2 that I have found on the PT forum :
"OK, so I've had an opportunity to listen to the bonus tracks from The Incident and feel I can add a few worthwhile comments in addition to the what the reviewer above wrote:
Flicker : This was the only song that I (accidentally) got to hear during the playback session up in NY in June, and frankly I was chatting with PT's manager at the time it was playing and hardly paid any attention to it, hard to figure how I missed it though as Flicker is awesome !!!! A super cool, laid back, atmospheric track with Rich's vibey/late night synths standing right out front, and a very tasteful SW solo bookending a lovely LBS-style verse/chorus arrangement. This one reminds me easily of a song that would have fit very nicely on LBS as it has equal parts Disappear and Buying New Soul goodness in it. Oh yeah almost forgot, LOT's of lovely multipart da da da harmony vocals from SW. The reviewer above nailed this one cold, it might well be one of the best tracks on the entire album period !
Bonnie the Cat is a definitely an unusual song in that it is incredibly "all over the place" from a stylistic point of view, yet still very much a linear composition if that makes any sense ?!?!? It starts off all ethereal and ambient-like, before SW starts to add in whispered claustrophobic vocals that sound very menacing at times. There is a very propulsive groove laid down by Gav and Colin and this thing just builds into a monstrous beast by the middle of the song. Richard gets to "air out" an assload of bizarre electronic noise at this point and then the track just blows wide open into a full blown Meshuggah (w/ a Middle Eastern vibe I might add) homage !!! The riffs during this section may well be the heaviest the band has ever created, and frankly this track will just crush skulls in the front few rows of gigs if played live !!! Yes, it's that heavy !
Oh, and BtC is also the only (that I can readily tell) track from the bonus disc of material featured on the My Space medley !
Black Dhalia is a mellow swooning ballad that is predominantly keyboard driven. SW's vocals are fairly heavily treated and have a very distinct Stupid Dream quality to them, nice mellow understated guitar solo by SW, and an ethereal fade out... Dreamy and sweet in a melancholic sort of way, but it didn't knock me out upon a few listens... Almost feels too short in a weird way. Might be a grower though...
Remember Me Lover starts out very spartan, SW and his guitar and then kicks in around the 2 min. mark, and the chorus just sucks you in from the start. While the reviewer above is correct that SW's vox are kinda submerged in the mix and treated fairly heavily, I can still hear what he is saying and these lyrics almost sound personal. At the 3 min mark it gets all groovy and heavy for about a minute and then subsides back into the chilled vibe that it started out with for the verse and then heads back to a more dramatic return of the chorus. Around the 6:15 mark this song starts to get very heavy and intense rhythmically as it hurtles toward the finish. This is a very unique track for SW and PT as it doesn't sound like anything they have specifically done before, but yet as the reviewer above noted there"
)who are trying to ca$h in on this release big time. Seems like they have finally figured out that PT fans have endless supplies of money for anything "exclusive" or "limited"
