The Incident is the tenth studio album by British progressive rock band Por… Read Full Bio ↴The Incident is the tenth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Around March and April, Wilson commented the 35-minute song kept evolving, becoming a 55-minute song occupying the entire disc. The 55-minute work is described as a slightly surreal song cycle about beginnings and endings and the sense that ‘after this, things will never be the same again’. The self-produced album 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 feature on a separate EP length disc to stress their independence from the song cycle.
- Concept
“There was a sign saying ‘POLICE – INCIDENT’ and everyone was slowing down to rubber neck to see what had happened... Afterwards, it struck me that ‘incident’ is a very detached word for something so destructive and traumatic for the people involved. And then I had the sensation that the spirit of someone that had died in the accident entered into my car and was sitting next to me. “The irony of such a cold expression for such seismic events appealed to me, and I began to pick out other ‘incidents’ reported in the media and news,” continues 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.”
— Steven Wilson
- Concept
“There was a sign saying ‘POLICE – INCIDENT’ and everyone was slowing down to rubber neck to see what had happened... Afterwards, it struck me that ‘incident’ is a very detached word for something so destructive and traumatic for the people involved. And then I had the sensation that the spirit of someone that had died in the accident entered into my car and was sitting next to me. “The irony of such a cold expression for such seismic events appealed to me, and I began to pick out other ‘incidents’ reported in the media and news,” continues 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.”
— Steven Wilson
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The Incident
Porcupine Tree Lyrics
Black Dahlia You have no interest in the past Where you came from Where…
Bonnie the Cat Can't feel the pain that I expected I still place keys…
Drawing the Line Camphor crossed with lace, it is the witching hour Cinematic…
Flicker Nothing is new here underneath the sun All of the big…
Great Expectations A summer day In garlands I feel secure A useless faith That …
I Drive the Hearse When this freedom stains my coat With the winter in my…
Kneel and Disconnect Kneel and disconnect And waste another year Fill the applica…
Octane Twisted We go following sorrow to feel your Blood spilling out of…
Remember Me Lover I didn't want to feel like a slave to your…
The Blind House If you wanna stay Always here All these years The last front…
The Incident At junction 8 the traffic starts to slow Artilleries of brak…
The Seance Under gas light the joining of hands Chanting a name over…
The Séance Under gas light, the joining of hands Chanting a name over…
Time Flies I was born in '67 The year of Sgt. Pepper And Are…
Your Unpleasant Family Your unpleasant family, Smashed up my car (perfectly uncalle…