Porcupine Tree found their sound on seventh album In Absentia, released in 2002. It followed a series of changing directions as Steven Wilson explored his own musical interest in the gradual discovery of something definitive. The albums that had gone before have received varying degrees of respect and re-evaluation over the years. In 2020, Prog argued that, for a number of reasons, 2000’s Lightbulb Sun had been unfairly disregarded, both at the time of its arrival and later.
