Porcupine Tree The Incident Mini-Review
Today I attended the Porcupine Tree playback for the new album, The Incident. Located at a London studio, the 55 minute epic was played through high quality 5.1 DTS surround sound speakers, showing off the advanced mixing skills of SW, easily matching the sound experience of Deadwing.
It takes many, many listens to fully appreciate and notice all the subtleties of such a long song but even in a single session the unique Porcupine Tree sound was easily recognisable.
Starting very suddenly and changing often, a mixture of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds and Nine Inch Nails shines through the middle section as the “story” of the first song progresses. Intense electric guitar contrasts against “Trains”-like acoustic, interspersed with grand piano which could easily be from Insurgentes.
Indeed, The Incident would not be out of place on the In Absentia album with its heavy guitar riffs and swirling Barbieri synth effects.
We were only treated to the first song, broken down into 14 parts, with 4 remaining, but separate, songs still to be revealed. One thing is certain, this is going to be a good year for Porcupine Tree.
The Incident in the new album from Porcupine Tree, out September 21st 2009.
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Hummmm….sounds good….but don’t tease with such reviews….just release the album soon…..and PT come to Mumbai,India.
I think the audio preview shows that this is going to be probably the most exciting and creative PT album yet—though you could probably say that about each PT album as they were released. Can’t wait for the show in Boston–my first since In Absentia.
Mini indeed. You could have said alittle mor about the actual style, the tempo, heavyness, “progness” etc. Thanks anyway.
I think that it’s good fime for a full review:
http://arktyka.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/porcupine-tree-the-incident/
Enjoy.