CLOSURE/CONTINUATION

If we take into account the long musical career of Porcupine Tree (11 studio albums now, several singles and live works), where they have explored and experienced different stages that go from the easy and lazy psychedelia of their first albums (when PC was more a solo project by Steven Wilson than a band as such) to their last works characterized by their "heavy prog" style (where the band reaches its peak with FOABP ), and we also remember that before releasing C/C the band had released four singles, we could already get an idea of ​​what PC was going to offer us: an album that does not disappoint or surprise, with a well- differentiated style that is easy to recognize by old or even new fans of the band, and that also works as a cover letter for future fans of the band, the latter because in C/C we find a summary of the different facets of the band, from certain pop-psychedelic songs (Of the New Day) to c more elaborate compositions (Chimera's Wreck), going through songs like Harridan which, according to Steven Wilson himself, is the song that best sums up the style of porcupine tree.

With all this it is clear to us that the more than ten years that the band took to bring us a new album is due more to a lack of interest and to Steven Wilson's solo career, than to a search for new musical horizons; C/C could perfectly have been released immediately after The Incident, both in sound and music we are facing a 100% Porcupine Tree album. And with the latter I don't want to reproach the lack of innovation of the band, after all they don't have to prove anything to anyone what they are capable of and -like it or not- they have become one of the most respected prog bands in recent times.