New Porcupine Tree record announced

[Arjen W.]

From Porcupine Tree - Recent News:

Fear of a Blank Planet

01-06-2007

Roadrunner Records and Atlantic USA have officially announced the release of the new Porcupine Tree album "Fear of a Blank Planet" in mid April. The album features six (mostly lengthy) tracks, and is the band’s most ambitious and cohesive work to date. Much of it was debuted last year on tour to a rapturous response from fans.

The lyrical content of the song-cycle on the album is a 21st century cocktail of MTV, sex, prescription drugs, video games, the internet, terminal boredom, and subsequent escape.

More news and previews of the album to follow on this site.

 

[affinityband]

im gettin 3 out of 7 of those from just reading that, namely prescription drugs, sex, terminal boredom

 

[ShadowLioness]

Woot! I'm very much looking forward to the "subsequent escape" part.

 

[Kenneth R.]

sounded great until i got to the part about what the lyrics would be about. still i hope they pull it off better than blackfield 2

 

[FullMetalCornflake]

ooooo... nice!

 

[all_sins_undone]

hmmm

 

[BreathingShadow]

sweet..i cant wait for the video game version of their song Halo.

 

[Detric]

yes, finally. cant wait

 

[wankerness]

HOoray, the 10th steven wilson album in like 4 years that will undoubtedly sound almost the same as the others :\ Hope it's better than deadwing...

 

[all_sins_undone]

HOoray, the 10th steven wilson album in like 4 years that will undoubtedly sound almost the same as the others :\ Hope it's better than deadwing...

. seriously, deadwing was quite horrid

 

[Jon Snow]

I'm looking forward to this.

 

[Detric]

deadwing was fucking awesome

 

[tchocky]

Deadwing was all right but In Absentia and Lightbulb Sun are better. I'm still kind of looking forward to this though.

 

[i aint play this]

Not fucking awesome imo, but still good, one of the weakest PT albums, some tracks are kind of stupid...it is nowhere as incredible as In Absentia, Signify, Lightbulb sun, Stupid dream or Recordings.

 

[all_sins_undone]

Not fucking awesome imo, but still good, one of the weakest PT albums, some tracks are kind of stupid...it is nowhere as incredible as In Absentia, Signify, Lightbulb sun, Stupid dream or Recordings.

agreed, except for the "still good" part

 

[wankerness]

I like "Arriving Somewhere, But Not Here," otherwise a big pile of boring crud compared to In Absentia, Lightbulb Sun, and Recordings.

 

[all_sins_undone]

actually you're right about that wank, arriving somewhere is a great tune.

 

[derbeder]

open car is pretty good too. but deadwing is nowhere near in absentia, recordings and lightbulb sun.

 

[BRI]

6 tracks? They played 7 live, and some of them weren't so good. Let's hope they ditched the bad ones and there is some completely new stuff on the final release

 

[Arjen W.]

Meh, Deadwing had its moments, but it wasn't mindblowing, especially compared to In Absentia etc. Still, I'm very interested in this next record, hope it'll be better than the last one.

Strangely enough I was listening to Deadwing today, that's what brought me to the PT site. ASBNH is a good track indeed, for the first time I noticed that Mike's solo part is almost identical to some solo stuff on Ghost Reveries (Hours Of Wealth), pretty funny. Probably the first time I gave Deadwing a spin since GR's release.