New Porcupine Tree Album This Fall

Porcupine Tree recently announced that their latest effort is titled The Incident and will arrive as a double CD on 21 September. The boys are taking a page from the Jethro Tull playbook with the title track clocking in at 55 minutes and taking up the whole of the first disc.

The centre-piece is the title track, which takes up the whole of the first 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’.”



Here's the breakdown:

THE INCIDENT
i occam’s razor (1.55)
ii the blind house (5.47)
iii great expectations (1.26)
iv kneel and disconnect (2.03)
v drawing the line (4.43)
vi the incident (5.20)
vii your unpleasant family (1.48)
viii the yellow windows of the evening train (2.00)
ix time flies (11.40)
x degree zero of liberty (1.45)
xi octane twisted (5.03)
xii the séance (2.39)
xiii circle of manias (2.18)
xiv i drive the hearse (6.41)

There will be 4 separate songs on the second disc – "Flicker", "Bonnie The Cat", "Black Dahlia", and "Remember Me Lover".

You can watch some behind the scenes footage shot during the making of the album here.

I am going to be catching The Tree in Chicago the day after the album is released so I'll have to try and give it a spin before I head down.