In the clip below, producer / songwriter / educator Rick Beato - who also has a popular YouTube channel, Everything Music - sits down with Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson for a career-spanning interview.
Beato: "In this episode, I interview Steven Wilson He is the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Porcupine Tree, as well as being a member of several other bands, including Blackfield, Storm Corrosion and No-Man. He is also a solo artist, having released 6 solo albums since his solo debut, Insurgentes, in 2008, in a career spanning more than 30 years."
Earlier this year, Porcupine Tree released an official video of the band performing "Harridan" from their new album, Closure/Continuation, at Air Studios. Check it out below.
Closure/Continuation is available on standard CD, standard black vinyl 2x12” LP, white vinyl 2x12” LP, transparent blue vinyl 2x12” LP, and white cassette. In addition, a limited audiophile deluxe LP will also be available, cut at 45rpm on 3x12” clear vinyl in 12” slipcase box with two bonus tracks; a limited audiophile deluxe CD in 12” slipcase box will include the standard CD, a second disc with three bonus tracks and instrumentals, Blu-ray disc with 5.1/Dolby Atmos and HD audio versions of the album, and an exclusive album art book.
Tracklisting:
"Harridan"
"Of The New Day"
"Rats Return"
"Dignity"
"Herd Culling"
"Walk The Plank"
"Chimera’s Wreck"
Bonus Tracks:
"Population Three" * †
"Never Have" * †
"Love In The Past Tense" †
* Limited Audiophile Deluxe LP
† Limited Audiophile Deluxe CD
“Of The New Day":
“Harridan” lyric video:
One of the most forward-thinking, genre-defying rock bands of any era, Porcupine Tree was founded in 1987 by renowned musician/producer Steven Wilson as an outlet for the experimental recordings he was making outside of his acclaimed post-rock duo, No-Man. With the addition of keyboard player Richard Barbieri and drummer Gavin Harrison, Porcupine Tree soon evolved into a proper band, releasing 10 studio albums between 1992 and 2009. Each new release saw Porcupine Tree exploring new musical ideas, their expansive music shifting from pastoral psychedelic rock and ambient electronic soundscapes to experimental pop and propulsive metal. Later releases like 2007’s Grammy Award-nominated Fear Of A Blank Planet and 2009’s The Incident - the band’s biggest seller thus far, reaching the top 25 in both the US and the UK - saw Porcupine Tree effortlessly melding distinctive genres to create a groundbreaking musical universe all their own.
Recorded quietly and sporadically over the last decade and finished during a period when touring was curtailed in 2020/21, Closure/Continuation marks the most collaborative album of Porcupine Tree’s highly lauded career. From its restless, often troubled lyrics to its gorgeous cyclonic sound, the album stands tall as a stunning and timely return of rock’s most consistently innovative and influential bands, an album of forward-thinking music fed through myriad electronic filters, equal parts squalling noise and soaring, melancholy melody.
