Reflections of Darkness - Music Magazine - PORCUPINE TREE

Details: Written by: Super User; Published: 14 July 2009

PORCUPINE TREE has a preview online from their upcoming album 'The Incident': http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/page/News?news_id=80069

The band have chosen to reveal that the stunning 55-minute title track is in fact a 14-part song cycle. The new album will be released on Roadrunner Records in the Benelux on September 18, the band will be playing at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on October 12.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Steven Wilson elaborates: “The Incident isn’t intended as one long song – it’s more a series of songs connected together in a continuous flow, with each song about a specific event. Originally the idea was to take the sense of musical continuity that is the basis of all PT albums to the next level by writing a 55-minute song cycle, starting with the simplest musical device - a single repeated guitar chord. I had no lyrical theme when I started, but I began at the beginning and each part of the song cycle grew naturally out of the previous one. This is very different to previous PT albums where the sequencing and flow of the albums was established at the end of the recording process by figuring out the best order for the songs. Here each song was specifically written to seamlessly flow out of the previous one and link to the next.”

The title track The Incident comprises:

i Occam’s Razor
ii The Blind House
iii Great Expectations
iv Kneel And Disconnect
v Drawing The Line
vi The Incident
vii Your Unpleasant Family
viii The Yellow Windows Of The Evening Train
ix Time Flies
x Degree Zero Of Liberty
xi Octane Twisted
xii The Séance
xiii Circle Of Manias
xiv I Drive The Hearse

The double-CD is completed by four standalone compositions that developed out of band writing sessions last December – Flicker, Bonnie The Cat, Black Dahlia, and Remember Me Lover – housed on a separate CD to stress their independence from the title track.

Thanks to roadrunnerrecords.co.uk - source: petting zoo propaganda.