PORCUPINE TREE - Closure / Continuation.Live. Amsterdam 07/11/22 [4LP Clear]

MUSIC FOR NATIONS

£76.95

Format: 4 x LP, Clear
Catalogue No.: 19658830371
Barcode: 196588303715
Release Date: 08 Dec 2023
Genre: Rock

12” Size rigid slipcase with 315.5mm spine to hold 5x LP’s, 4/4, matt lam finish + spot gloss UV, high embossing on front
150x150mm Sticker on front of slipcase - 1 colour + spot gloss finish
51x51mm Sticker on back of Sleeve - 1 colour + spot gloss finish
4x 12” Crystal Clear Heavyweight 180gm vinyl

8x LP Labels, Standard paper 4 colour (CMYK)
4x 12” Outersleeves, 350gsm, 5mm Spine, 4/4, matt lam finish + spot gloss UV – Side Opening
4x 12” Inner bags, 200gsm, 4/0, matt lam finish + spot gloss UV – Top Opening

Shrinkwrap on outer slipcase only

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.

A1 Blackest Eyes
A2 Harridan
A3 Of The New Day
B1 Rats Return
B2 Even Less
B3 Drown With Me
C1 Dignity
C2 The Sound Of Muzak
C3 Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
D1 Chimera's Wreck
D2 Fear Of A Blank Planet
E1 Buying New Soul
E2 Walk The Plank
E3 Sentimental
F Anesthetize
G1 Herd Culling
G2 I Drive The Hearse
G3 Sleep Together
H1 Collapse The Light Into The Earth
H2 Halo
H3 Trains