Which album is a good place to start, for those of us unfamiliar with their work?
I only have Deadwing and In Absentia. Both are good, but I found Deadwing much easier to get into..
In Absentia has some great tracks, but also a couiple which I think are poor.
Both albums have 'heavy' sections, In Absentia more so. The heavy tracks on this album are more spiky sounding, more Rush (Counterparts era) like. Whereas the heavy sections on Deadwing are more Tool like.
Visit
www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=290 to listen to some tracks ("Arriving Somewhere, but not here", "Even Less" etc)