Porcupine Tree is a British progressive rock band formed in Hemel Hempstead… Read Full Bio ↴Porcupine Tree is a British progressive rock band formed in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom in 1987. During the course of the band's history, it has at times incorporated psychedelic rock, alternative, ambient, electronic, and, most recently, metal and post-rock into its unique style of progressive rock. Since 2010, mainstay Steven Wilson has concentrated on his solo work. On November 1st, 2021, the band announced a new album and tour in the formation Gavin Harrison, Steven Wilson, and Richard Barbieri (without Colin Edwin).
Porcupine Tree started out as a "fake" band, the only real member being multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson. Wilson's first two releases, Tarquin's Seaweed Farm (1989) and The Nostalgia Factory (1990), were both released on cassette tapes. In addition to the band's trademark psychedelic sound, these two tapes also contained heavy ambient and pop influences. Wilson's favorite tracks were then compiled into the CD On the Sunday of Life... (1991), while the more ambient-leaning tracks were also collected in Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (1994). The first of these two featured many new versions of songs.
Wilson then went on to release Voyage 34 (1992) and Up the Downstair (1993), which refined the sound of the previous albums and removed the pop influences. Both of these were later re-released, the first as Voyage 34: The Complete Trip (2000), which included an extra two remixes (a total of four), while Up the Downstair was remastered at 2005 with real drums added in place of the drum-machine beats.
The Sky Moves Sideways (1995), often considered the band's best album by long-time fans, largely uses the spacey nature of previous albums. By the time of Signify (1996) Wilson had a full band at his disposal: Chris Maitland (drums), Colin Edwin (bass), and Richard Barbieri, formerly of Japan, on keyboards.
The band's next two albums, Stupid Dream (1999) and Lightbulb Sun (2000), saw them take on a more alternative rock-oriented sound, while still drawing influence from as far back as Up the Downstair. During this period, the band garnered increasing recognition, both in their home country and abroad. Finally, they were signed to Lava Records (a major American record label) in time for the release of In Absentia, with Gavin Harrison replacing Chris Maitland on drums. This album shows high metal influences, due in part to Wilson's work with Opeth on their album Blackwater Park. The band continued this sound for their 2005 release, Deadwing, which has the heaviest and most noticeable metal influences.
In April 2007, the band released Fear of a Blank Planet, an album clearly influenced by the post-rock genre, but also sees them expanding the metal side of their music, yet still remaining true to older facets of the band's sound.
In April, 2007, the band embarked on a six-month world tour in support of Fear of a Blank Planet, one that included Europe, the U.S., Japan, and Australia. The new album was featured, and the show featured the films and projections by the band's long-time visualist Lasse Hoile.
Fear of a Blank Planet is already the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album of the band's career, charting high in most countries (even giving the band their first top-forty album in their home country). Porcupine Tree spent most of 2007 on tour promoting the album, and a new EP Nil Recurring containing material left over from the album-writing sessions was released on the band's own label Transmission in September.
The band started recording their tenth studio album The Incident in February 2009. This was confirmed by the band, posting this message on their official website: "Writing for the next PT studio record is well underway, with the band recently spending two weeks scheduled in the English countryside working on new tracks. Recording of these pieces and a new 35 minute SW song cycle were due to start in February..." A tour was announced on the band's website and MySpace, along with dates, following release of the new album. Around March and April, Wilson commented the 35-minute song kept evolving and now it has become a 55-minute song, occupying the entire disc.
On 20 May 2010, Porcupine Tree released their second live concert film on DVD and Blu-ray, titled Anesthetize. It was recorded live on 15 and 16 October 2008 in the Netherlands at the 013 Tilburg venue.
On 17 June 2010, the band announced on their website that a new live album titled Atlanta, recorded during the tour of Fear of a Blank Planet at the Roxy theatre, Atlanta, on 29 October 2007, would be released in a near future. This album was released via online distribution only, without any class of physical format; all the sale proceeds were donated to Mick Karn for his treatment against cancer.
In June 2012, Wilson re-emphasised his continued focus on his solo career.
On November 1st, 2021, the band announced their eleventh studio album Closure / Continuation, to be released in June 2022 on Music For Nations, along with their first single in over 12 years, Harridan. The release is the first without bassist Colin Edwin since he joined the band in 1993.
Porcupine Tree started out as a "fake" band, the only real member being multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson. Wilson's first two releases, Tarquin's Seaweed Farm (1989) and The Nostalgia Factory (1990), were both released on cassette tapes. In addition to the band's trademark psychedelic sound, these two tapes also contained heavy ambient and pop influences. Wilson's favorite tracks were then compiled into the CD On the Sunday of Life... (1991), while the more ambient-leaning tracks were also collected in Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (1994). The first of these two featured many new versions of songs.
Wilson then went on to release Voyage 34 (1992) and Up the Downstair (1993), which refined the sound of the previous albums and removed the pop influences. Both of these were later re-released, the first as Voyage 34: The Complete Trip (2000), which included an extra two remixes (a total of four), while Up the Downstair was remastered at 2005 with real drums added in place of the drum-machine beats.
The Sky Moves Sideways (1995), often considered the band's best album by long-time fans, largely uses the spacey nature of previous albums. By the time of Signify (1996) Wilson had a full band at his disposal: Chris Maitland (drums), Colin Edwin (bass), and Richard Barbieri, formerly of Japan, on keyboards.
The band's next two albums, Stupid Dream (1999) and Lightbulb Sun (2000), saw them take on a more alternative rock-oriented sound, while still drawing influence from as far back as Up the Downstair. During this period, the band garnered increasing recognition, both in their home country and abroad. Finally, they were signed to Lava Records (a major American record label) in time for the release of In Absentia, with Gavin Harrison replacing Chris Maitland on drums. This album shows high metal influences, due in part to Wilson's work with Opeth on their album Blackwater Park. The band continued this sound for their 2005 release, Deadwing, which has the heaviest and most noticeable metal influences.
In April 2007, the band released Fear of a Blank Planet, an album clearly influenced by the post-rock genre, but also sees them expanding the metal side of their music, yet still remaining true to older facets of the band's sound.
In April, 2007, the band embarked on a six-month world tour in support of Fear of a Blank Planet, one that included Europe, the U.S., Japan, and Australia. The new album was featured, and the show featured the films and projections by the band's long-time visualist Lasse Hoile.
Fear of a Blank Planet is already the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album of the band's career, charting high in most countries (even giving the band their first top-forty album in their home country). Porcupine Tree spent most of 2007 on tour promoting the album, and a new EP Nil Recurring containing material left over from the album-writing sessions was released on the band's own label Transmission in September.
The band started recording their tenth studio album The Incident in February 2009. This was confirmed by the band, posting this message on their official website: "Writing for the next PT studio record is well underway, with the band recently spending two weeks scheduled in the English countryside working on new tracks. Recording of these pieces and a new 35 minute SW song cycle were due to start in February..." A tour was announced on the band's website and MySpace, along with dates, following release of the new album. Around March and April, Wilson commented the 35-minute song kept evolving and now it has become a 55-minute song, occupying the entire disc.
On 20 May 2010, Porcupine Tree released their second live concert film on DVD and Blu-ray, titled Anesthetize. It was recorded live on 15 and 16 October 2008 in the Netherlands at the 013 Tilburg venue.
On 17 June 2010, the band announced on their website that a new live album titled Atlanta, recorded during the tour of Fear of a Blank Planet at the Roxy theatre, Atlanta, on 29 October 2007, would be released in a near future. This album was released via online distribution only, without any class of physical format; all the sale proceeds were donated to Mick Karn for his treatment against cancer.
In June 2012, Wilson re-emphasised his continued focus on his solo career.
On November 1st, 2021, the band announced their eleventh studio album Closure / Continuation, to be released in June 2022 on Music For Nations, along with their first single in over 12 years, Harridan. The release is the first without bassist Colin Edwin since he joined the band in 1993.
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"Fear of a Blank Planet" Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind…
"Tinto Brass" [Instrumental]…
.3 Black the sky, weapons fly Lay them waste for your race Blac…
02_How Is Your Life Today? The letters pile up in the hallway Junk mail and bills…
03 Dislocated Day A dislocated day Peers in to the ether Counts the stars in…
04) Pure Narcotic You keep me waiting You keep me alone in a room…
06) Don't Hate Me A light snow is falling on London All sign of the…
06_The Rest Will Flow I was pretending to be floating strong But I was sinking In…
07) This Is No Rehearsal How many children did I bring into this world? How many…
10_Feel So Low So see how long I can last You can pretend that…
11-Always Never I feel no pain 'cause I'm an island I will remain In the…
12 Stop Swimming This song leaks out onto the pavement It could be a…
12. Radioactive Toy Run through forests on a hot Summer day Trying to break…
2 Where We Would Be Tied, tied to a time When we knew that the sun…
2-01 Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Never stop the car on a drive in the dark Never…
3 Black the sky, weapons fly Lay them waste for your race…
3. Lips of Ashes Paralyzed Lips of Ashes Synchronized Blue vein crashes …
4 Chords That Made a Million Six of one a half a dozen Black guitars and plastic…
5. Gravity Eyelids Open your eyes now Hear me out before I lose my…
9 Cats He butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed…
9. The Creator Has A Mastertape He captured and collected things And he put them in a…
A Smart Kid Stranded here on planet earth It's not much but it could…
Access Denied Access denied All of the smarter kids they stay inside But…
Always Never I feel no pain 'cause I'm an island I will remain In the…
Ambulance Chasing [Instrumental]…
And The Swallows Dance Above T I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat I'…
And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat …
Anesthetize A good impression Of myself Not much to conceal I'm saying …
Arriving Somewhere Never stop the car on a drive in the dark Never…
Baby Cellophane I am in my pram Look you, I'm so new Oh,…
Baby Dream in Cellophane I am in my pram Look you - I'm so new…
Begonia Seduction Scene [instrumental]…
Black Dahlia You have no interest in the past Where you came from Where…
Blackest Eyes A mother sings a lullaby to a child Sometime in the…
Bonnie the Cat Can't feel the pain that I expected I still place keys…
Bornlivedieintro [Instrumental]…
Burning Sky [Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental]…
Buying New Soul Dried up, a guitar upon my knee I should have sold…
Cheating the Polygraph Lying through my teeth again I've been bad again, black lie…
Chimera's Wreck A coat or arms is all we are The slow…
Chloroform Chloroform Little retrograde, wonder where you are Another m…
Cloud Zero [instrumental]…
Collapse I won't shiver in the cold I won't let the shadows…
Collapse the Light Into Earth I won't shiver in the cold I won't let the shadows…
Colourflow in Mind I cross the city backwards There's a lot of soul to…
Creator has a mastertape The He captured and collected things And he put them in a…
Cure for Optimism Up there a mountain rises Down here an ocean dives A strange…
Dark Matter Inside the vehicle the cold is extreme Smoke in my throat…
Darkmatter Inside the vehicle the cold is extreme Smoke in my throat…
Deadwing And something warm and soft just passed through here It took…
Delightful Suicide [Instrumental]…
Dignity Lost boy, with the shreds of your shoes on your…
Disappear We made the world believe we didn't care We gate crashed…
Dislocated Day A dislocated day Peers in to the ether Counts the stars insi…
Dissapear We made the world believe we didn't care We gate crashed…
Don't Hate Me A light snow is falling on London All sign of the…
Don’t Hate Me A light snow is falling on London All sign of the…
Door to the River [Instrumental]…
Drawing the Line Camphor crossed with lace, it is the witching hour Cinematic…
Drown With Me Drown With Me So you have been of use And you have…
Even Less A body is washed up on a Norfolk beach He was…
Every Home Is Wired Modem load and failsafe Electric teenage dust Hit the solv…
Fadeaway I sat in the room with a view The girl in…
Fear of a Blank Planet Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind…
Fear of a Blank Planet Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind,…
Feel So Low So see how long I can last You can pretend that…
Flicker Nothing is new here underneath the sun All of the big…
Footprints I saw her footprints on the sea I knew her eyes…
Four Chords That Made a Million Six of one a half a dozen Black guitars and plastic…
Futile You were the one that made her cry You were the…
Glass Arm Shattering Feeling are you touching? Feeling are you blind? Feeling a…
Gravity Eyelids Open your eyes now Hear me out before I lose my…
Great Expectations A summer day In garlands I feel secure A useless faith That …
Half Light Such a pale light Such a long night Pick up that key Don't…
Halo God is in my fingers God is in my head God is…
Harridan Gold man bites down on his silver tongue Takes a deep…
Hate Song This is a hate song just meant for you I thought…
Hatesong This is a hate song just meant for you I thought…
Heart Attack in a Layby I pull off the road East of Baldock and Ashford Feeling fo…
Heartattack In A Lay By I pull off the road East of Baldock and Ashford Feeling for…
Herd Culling Son, go fetch the rifle now I think there's something in…
How Is Your Life Today The letters pile up in the hallway Junk mail and bills…
How Is Your Life Today? The letters pile up in the hallway Junk mail and bills…
Hymn [instrumental]…
I Waiting, to be born again Wanting, the saddest kind of pain…
I Drive the Hearse When this freedom stains my coat With the winter in my…
III Black the sky, weapons fly Lay them waste for your race Blac…
Imogen Slaughter Someone to love Someone to swallow Someone to vote for Someo…
In Formaldehyde Dust in the kitchen Coffeepot Microdots Now we are coas…
Incident The At junction 8 the traffic starts to slow Artilleries of brak…
It Will Rain for a Milion Year I locked myself inside the capsule And watched the planet s…
It Will Rain for a Million Years I locked myself inside the capsule And watched the planet sl…
IV Six of one a half a dozen Black guitars and plastic…
IX He butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed…
Jupiter Island Jupiter Island is full of pleasures Glowing gardens holding …
Kneel and Disconnect Kneel and disconnect And waste another year Fill the applica…
Last Chance To Evacuate Planet If you fall asleep with me You can dream and drowse The…
Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recylced If you fall asleep with me You can dream and drowse The…
Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth... If you fall asleep with me You can dream and drowse The…
Lazarus As the cheerless towns pass my window I can see a…
Lightbulb Sun The sun is a light bulb A candle's a treat The curtains…
Linton Samuel Dawson Linton Samuel Dawson Lives in inner space He hangs around wi…
Lips of Ashes Paralyzed Lips of Ashes Synchronized Blue vein crashes Touc…
London A light snow is falling in London All sign of the…
Love in the Past Tense One hundred rooftops stretch Across a crowded skyline in rel…
Mellotron Scratch A tiny flame inside my head A compromise I never planned Unr…
Men of Wood Come together men of wood Burning sunsets where you stood …
Message From a Self-Destructing Turnip [instrumental]…
Monuments Burn Into Moments [Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental]…
Moon Touches Your Shoulder Springtime is over Don't head for home Creep up the ladder A…
Music for the Head [instrumental]…
My Ashes All the things that I needed I wasted my chances…
My Ashes -live All the things that I needed I wasted my chances…
Navigator [instrumental]…
Never Have You need but you'll never have You dreamed but you…
Nil Recurring [feat. Robert Fripp (King Crimson) on lead guitar] [Instr…
Nine Cats He butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed…
Nine Cats-Acoustic He butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed…
No Luck With Rabbits [instrumental]…
No Reason to Live, No Reason to Die [Instrumental Masterpiece]…
Normal Here is my car, my phone and my TV I've got…
Nostalgia Factory A Caterpillar crawled to me one day and said "Oh what…
Not Beautiful Anymore [Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental]…
Octane Twisted We go following sorrow to feel your Blood spilling out of…
Of The New Day Hold your fear in check my dear It's got no place…
On the Sunday of Life... [instrumental]…
Open Car Nothing like this, felt in her kiss Cannot resist her Fell f…
Out Out at the train tracks I dream of escape But…
Out It Will Rain for a Million Years I locked myself inside the capsule And watched the planet s…
Phantoms I look at all the sad story people Lost in the…
Phase I Spoken: This remarkable, sometimes incoherent tran…
Phase II The LSD trip is a pilgrimage far out beyond your…
Phase III Samples of spoken words of Phase I and II The LSD…
Phase IV Spoken: Well I never think that when I'm twenty-on…
Piano Lessons I remember piano lessons The hours in freezing rooms Cruel e…
porcupine_tree_-_in_absentia_-_04_-_the_sound_of_muzak Hear the sound of music Drifting in the aisles Elevator Pr…
Prepare Yourself [instrumental]…
Prodigal I don't know whose side I'm on I don't think that…
Pure Narcotic You keep me waiting You keep me alone in a room…
Queen Quotes Crowley [Instrumental]…
Radioactive Toy Run through forests on a hot Summer day Trying to break…
Rainy Taxi [Instrumental]…
Rats Return Leave your principles at the door Spare me Purge your…
Remember Me Lover I didn't want to feel like a slave to your…
Rest Will Flow I was pretending to be floating strong But I was sinking In…
Revenant [Instrumental]…
Russia on Ice You think I deserve this You said I was stupid All my…
Russia On Ice demo You think I deserve this You said I was stupid All my…
Sentimental Never want to be old And I don?t want dependence…
Sever Telepath Carbon trapped under stone Brother mother pale body…
Sever Tomorrow [Written by Steven Wilson] Telepath Carbon trapped under st…
Shallow I don't remember Did something in my past create a hole? Don…
She's Moved On You move in waves You never retrace Your newest craze Str…
Shesmovedon You move in waves You never retrace Your newest craze Straig…
Signify II I'm not sure what I see Cupid don't fuck wit me! Are…
Siren [Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental]…
Slave Called Shiver I need you more than you can know And if I…
Slave Called Siver I need you more than you can know And if I…
Sleep of No Dreaming At the age of sixteen I grew out of hope I regarded…
Sleep Together This means out This is your way out Do or drown Do or…
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@ArcaneAardvark
One of the best bass lines of all time.
@kebiwoni
ArcaneAardvark It puts Jaco Pastorius to shame. Lol. I am just kidding.
@manco828
Steven Wilson is underrated in terms of coming up with memorable bass lines. One of the best ever.
@ivanyiattila3547
Pineapple Thief! :D
@manco828
Radiohead, Muse, U2 have some amazing ones too.
@suparnasengupta6916
It's great . No doubt about that but it's nowhere close to the best of all time.
@petecogs
Full blast in the car after work...
@davenight
+Pete C Great analogy PC, a great piece indeed, SW and PT masters of their genre.
@petecogs
+George David Just fucking magic, man. Just fucking magic.
@petecogs
+Dave Night Just feel the stress shed off you like icebergs calving!