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Porcupine Tree: New Album and Tour

HappyDayRiot said:
The five song titles are brilliant by themselves. If the songs live up to their titles this is gonna be awesome.

I'm torn though - do I want them to play The Incident live? It would consume the whole gig :D
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I was thinking the same thing, especially since the album comes out three days after our show in San Francisco.

I wonder if it will be a two part show? The Incident as the first half, then the hits/singles/etc. from the other albums in the second half?
 
I'll have had it for a few weeks before my gig so I'll have plenty of time to form an opinion on it. I'd rather have more songs I think, but equally the whole Incident live would be quite an experience I imagine.
 
I think they should ditch the opening acts, and do an "Evening With..." kind of tour, like Rush does.

They certainly have enough good material to fill out the sets.
 
That'd be cool. I wish more bands did that kind of thing - a few years ago In Flames put together a one-off in a tiny club where they first played their entire latest album, and then come back out to do a full greatest hits set afterwards. Oceansize also did a three night residency somewhere in London where they played each of their three albums over the course of the residency last year.

Of course, The Incident may work incredibly well live. The length doesn't necessarily mean it can't be done well - look at songs like The Sky Moves Sideways, Anesthetize, Voyage and Up the Downstair - they're all pushing 20 minutes long but are structured in such a way they could be two or three songs themselves. Anesthetize in particular has those closing 6 minutes or so that are completely detached from the first 12.

I'm going to be excited about this for the whole summer I just know it.
 
I love PT. I was starting to think I was the only one!

I only discovered them around the time of the Fear Of A Blank Planet album a few years back. I read interviews with Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy saying 'you guys have to check out this band Porcupine Tree...they're amazing'. I got FOABP on a whim. Loved it straight away, and now I have tons of their back catalogue.

Steve Wilson writes such great melodies, and his voice is very beautiful. I love their work, and I look forward to the new album.
 
HappyDayRiot said:
It's just occurred to me how long a 55-minute long song actually is. That's going to take some commitment to listen to - the longest song I currently own is The Mars Volta's Cassandra Geminni, and that's only a paltry 33 minutes long. Daunting stuff from Mr Wilson...
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Agreed. I'm sure the Incident will be bloody brilliant, as always, but its 55 minutes makes Yes' 'Close To The Edge' or Dream Theater's 'A Change Of Seasons' look positively radio friendly in comparison!

Oh well. I've a long attention span.
 
The production is a bit smooth. I would describe the sound as too velvety or silky. Needs a bit of roughage. They're ok, FOABP has some good tunes but the lyrics are cringeworthy at the best of times. Also Wilson, for all his production nous totally screwed up the drums on Opeths Damnation, the cymbals and hit hats sound like tin foil, he was probably going for a peared down intimate coffee shop drum sound but it sounds absolutely crap, the drums that is. Still this is probably the only album I'll be looking forward to this side of 010.
 
I've just preordered my CD from Play.com. Pre-orders through them gets you an exclusive live mp3 of Way Out of Here so that was a treat. Play also has the album listed as being 15 tracks, whereas Wikipedia has it listed as 1 track with 15 suites. I really, really hope it's the former. The other tracks - Flicker, Bonnie the Cat etc - are surprisingly short too, barely 4 minutes. What an album of extremes.

Also I meant to mention this before, but there's a new PT song available to buy on their website. It's called Meantime, it's from the In Absentia sessions and it was left off that album because it was 'far too cheery by half'. It's also really, really good. Actually reminds me a little of Radiohead in their more guitar-driven moments. I highly advise you all buy it!
 
I've pre-ordered my copy of The Incident as well. We're supposed to get a digital copy one day before the release date. I'm looking forward to that, since I want to get to know the music a bit before the concert.

Yes, Meantime would have sounded completely incongruent with the rest of In Absentia. Kind of a groovy little tune.

I've been listening to Futile a lot recently. I love it.
 
I'm going to see them in October in Paris. It will be my 4th PT concert. The 1st time they were the 1st act for Marillion and now they're the main act at the mythic Olympia. I'm expecting a great show, they're never disappointing :techman:
 
I've yet to see any kind of announcement regarding support bands for this tour. Fingers crossed there are none and it's a solid evening of pure Porcupine Tree.

At the moment I have So-Called Friend, Pure Narcotic, Stop Swimming, the 2004 re-recording of Shesmovedon, Waiting and The Sky Moves Sideways on near constantly. And Meantime, cos it's superb. I can't imagine why it took Wilson 8 years to let it see the light of day! Those 7 songs show off a hell of a lot of diversity just by themselves.
 
According to the PT Website, someone called Engineers is opening "all UK shows".

I've never heard of them, but they must be better than our opening act: That 1 Guy. A total crapfest. I don't know what PT is thinking with this one.
 
Robert Fripp is opening in Paris. Wow, I've heard him solo before a King Crimson concert, that was one of the weirdest experience I had during a concert :wtf:
 
I love Time Flies - only downloaded it today. I love that it's a 5 minute edit of an 11 minute part of a 55 minute long song.
 
HappyDayRiot said:
I love Time Flies - only downloaded it today. I love that it's a 5 minute edit of an 11 minute part of a 55 minute long song.
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I like it too.

Have you listened to the preview medley on their myspace page?

http://www.myspace.com/porcupinetree

I pre-ordered the album, and we'll get a digital download link on 9/8. That's great, so I'll get a chance to absorb everything before San Francisco.
 
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I've had that preview on at least once a day for the last 3 weeks :D My gig isn't for a whole month after the album is out so I'll have plenty of time to acquaint myself with the new material.
 
So The Incident is out and it's officially amazing. The Incident, The Blind House, Great Expectations, Time Flies, Octane Twisted and Circle of Manias are particularly superb bits of the main song. I sorely love Flicker and Remember Me Lover as well. A triumph as far as I'm concerned. It'll need to grow on me fully as all other PT albums, but right now I would place it 4th behind Deadwing, In Absentia and Stupid Dream/FOABP.

Cannot wait to see them now. Especially after seeing this http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/porcupine-tree/2009/moore-theatre-seattle-wa-13d78d61.html. A. Maz. Ing.
 
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