CD Boxset Released 23rd February
Vinyl Released 5th January
Following a career spanning an excess of 20 years, and with 10 studio albums under their belt, Porcupine Tree have long-established an undiminishing reverence held by fans and critics alike. Hailed as a genre leading, and defying alternative rock band, their inimitable sound effortlessly flirts between a multitude of styles including the classic rock songcraft, downturned metal and expanding electronics.
When Porcupine Tree went on hiatus in 2010 following their biggest ever headline show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, they were a cult band. Although the genre-defying alternative rock band were massively revered by their diehard community of fans, they remained largely unknown in the wider world - a very British anomaly whose unique music could veer sonically between fierce, expansive rock’n’roll, ambient techno and skywards soaring acoustics in the space of a single song and whose lyrics more often than not dwelt in the darker corners of the human psyche.
By the time Porcupine Tree (Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri, Gavin Harrison) announced their return in 2021, things were a little different. Their cult had grown, and grown.
Porcupine Tree’s eleventh album Closure/Continuation was released to a clean sweep of glowing reviews. It reached No 2 in the UK album chart, No 1 in Germany and was Top 10 all across Europe. The band’s subsequent arena tour crossed four continents and played to over 150,000 people, many of whom would never have seen the band before. Each night, the band played for nearly three hours and mined a deep, rich back catalogue that had lain dormant and untouched for the past decade. Fan reaction from city to city was nothing short of ecstatic.
Closure/Continuation Live documents Porcupine Tree’s triumphant return to the stage perfectly. A live recording captured on 7th November 2022 at Amsterdam’s 17,000 capacity Ziggo Dome, it places the listener/viewer right at the heart of the stage for the duration of the show as psychotropic visuals explode behind the band as they play a superlative set of songs that features - to use Steven Wilson’s words - “no hits”, where each one is received like an anthem from an alternate universe.
Closure/Continuation Live includes live recordings of much of their 2022 reunion album (including the singles Harridan and Of The New Day) as well as classic tracks like Trains, Fear of a Blank Planet and Anesthetize.
TRACKLISTINGS
CD/BLU-RAY BOX
2x CD’s (Full live show), 2 Blu-Ray discs Blu-Ray disc 1 will be full show + bonus features and Blu-Ray disc 2 will be Dolby Atomos Surround Sound Audio, 5.1 Surround Sound Audio and 24 bit High Resolution Audio + 60 Page 12” size book housed in slipcase.
Blackest Eyes
Harridan
Of the New Day
Rats Return
Even Less
Drown With Me
Dignity
The Sound Of Muzak
Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
Chimera’s Wreck
Fear of a Blank Planet
Buying New Soul
Walk The Plank
Sentimental
Herd Culling
Anesthetize
I Drive The Hearse
Sleep Together
Collapse the Light Into Earth
Halo
Trains
Limited Edition 4xLP Set
4x 12” heavyweight clear vinyl, in individual sleeves and inner bags housed in slipcase.
A
Blackest Eyes
Harridan
Of The New Day
B
Rats Return
Even Less
Drown With Me
C
Dignity
Sound Of Muzak
Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth
D
Chimera’s Wreck
Fear of a Blank Planet
E
Buying New Soul
Walk The Plank
Sentimental
F
Anesthetize
G
Herd Culling
I Drive the Hearse
Sleep Together
H
Collapse the Light Into Earth
Halo
Trains