New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Beginnings, endings, and moments that change life forever form the thematic backbone of Porcupine Tree's new album 'The Incident' (Roadrunner, Sept. 22).
Inspired by a flashing road sign that reduced a horrible traffic accident to the antiseptic phrase 'POLICE-INCIDENT,' Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson composed the 55 minute, 14-track song cycle as a reflection on other 'incidents' reported in the media and news.
Says Wilson, 'I wrote about the evacuation of teenage girls from a religious cult in Texas, a family terrorizing its neighbors, a body found floating in a river by some people on a fishing trip, and more. Each song is written in the first person and tries to humanize the detached media reportage.'
Wilson also delved into incidents from his own life that profoundly affected him, including a lost childhood friendship, a se'ance, his first love, and the day that he decided to give up secure employment to follow his dream of making music.
'The Incident' ranges effortlessly between art-rock and acoustic psychadelica, prog, and metal. Listen to an album preview medley here:
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'The Incident' comes with a second CD of four songs that developed from band's writing sessions last year but which are conceptually independent from the suite of songs on the first disc. It will also be released as a 5.1 surround mix and as a limited special edition that comes with two books of artwork related to the album encased in a slipcase.
Porcupine Tree earned a Grammy nomination for their 2007 opus 'Fear of a Blank Planet,' which Rolling Stone's David Fricke called 'an aggressively modern merger of Rush's arena art rock, U.K. prog classicism- especially Pink Floyd's eulogies to madness and King Crimson's angular majesty- and the post-grunge vengeance of Tool.'
Wilson's own 2009 album 'Insurgentes' was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as 'prog rock of epic ambition... new music that's thoroughly of the moment yet unabashedly proud of its roots.'
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