New Porcupine Tree Album -Update

    More news is filtering through about the as yet un-named new Porcupine Tree album.

Dutch International Rock and Metalmagazine AARDSCHOK(issue january 2007)has an interview with Steve Wilson about Porcupine Tree and Blackfield's new album releases.
Apparently the new PT album will contain 6 songs and be 55 minutes long. The already legendary track nicknamed by Steve as "The Beast" will come in at almost 20 minutes long and apparently the album will be an epic of unprecedented (for PT) structure and cohesion - dealing with the 'Blank Generation' that grew up with MTV, CD's, reality shows etc etc. Word has it that the album could be inspired by one of Brett Easton Ellis' novels.


Sounds tremendous.



thanks to "hellboy" and "erictak" at the Porcupine Tree forum http://www.porcupinetreeforum.co.uk
    
    
    
    

Edited by Tony R - December 19 2006 at 17:47

HOLY CRAP, amazing news!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if it's the same 6 tracks they played live, or if they switched a few.

Edited by Gravity Eyelids - December 19 2006 at 17:57

Sounds like a concept album ... that would be a first for them, apart from Voyage 34 (which is rather a jam session).

This is shaping up to be one of the best albums of 2007.
The antisipation is killing me! 

Can't wait!

Honestly, call me the naysayer of the pack here...but I wasn't all that impressed with the new material when I heard it live...even the long track...I thought the build-up was boring as hell and the rest just standard PT...it'll probably grow on me hopefully, but I couldn't help thinking when I was at the show that aside from one of the new songs (tricky time sigs. and a blistering solo from SW) that they had a major clunker on their hands.  Even some of the lyrics had me wincing a little bit, "let's get together?"...  Here's hoping the album's not 6 songs long, due to that being the amount of songs they PLAYED live...but it'll probably be good.

I've also been on the fence w/r/t Bret Easton Ellis too...I enjoyed the cinematic equivalents to his books, although I still have yet to read him.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Sounds like a concept album ... that would be a first for them, apart from Voyage 34 (which is rather a jam session).

    

I always thought that both In Absentia and Deadwing were sort of concept albums, based upon stories and ideas that related all the songs together... at least, this is from what I've read a lot about the albums and what other people's opinions have been about lyrical analysis of each album. Deadwing is more of a story-concept because isn't Wilson trying to make it into a movie? And In Absentia is a bit more loose in terms of connecting the lyrics together. Read the album pages for the respective albums on the Wiki for the band, as that's where I read most of what made me believe each album was a concept.

-Marc.

Gravity Eyelids wrote: I wonder if it's the same 6 tracks they played live, or if they switched a few.

Are you sure they played 6 new songs last tour? I only remember 4 @ the HOB's in Hollywood. I thought Steven Wilson said that they weren't playing several other new songs for this tour?

I am very curious to hear what Alex Lifeson's and Robert Fripp's contributions will be. I hope it's more than just one song. These two, along with Steve, are very different guitarists, so it could be very interesting. I wonder why David Gilmore has never been involved with PT, since there appears to be such a Pink Floyd influence in much of their music.