yes, porcupine tree are fucking amazing, conincidentally i am listening to In Absentia atm as well. Have been listening to it the last few weeks rather constantly
I am in the process of checking out stupid dream and their first album On The Sunday of life. More will soon follow.
If the music industry made any sense, these guys should be at least half as popular as Radiohead, not detracting anything from Radiohead.
Anyone, in the process of promoting some less familiar bands from London or from anywhere, just want to say Gomez and The Flaming Lips as well. Don't know how well anyone else knows them, but again more alternative bands who really can't be labeled as any particular genre ie progressive rock basically.
for InAbsentia, "trains" and "collapse the light into the earth" are amazing songs and worth the purchase of the album alone, let alone all the other tight collaborations.