Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation. Live. Amsterdam 07/11/22 [4LP] (Clear 180 Gram Vinyl, limited)

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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. Itreached #2 in the UK album chart, #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 Liveincludes live recordings of much of their 2022 reunion album (including the singles Harridan and Of The New Day) as well as classic tracks likeTrains, Fear of a Blank Planetand Anesthetize.

Side A

               1.            Blackest Eyes

               2.            Harridan

               3.            Of The New Day

 Side B

               1.            Rats Return

               2.            Even Less

               3.            Drown With Me

Side C

               1.            Dignity

               2.            Sound Of Muzak

               3.            Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled

 Side D

               1.            Chimera’s Wreck

               2.            Fear of a Blank Planet

 Side E

               1.            Buying New Soul

               2.            Walk The Plank

               3.            Sentimental

 Side F

               1.            Anesthetize 

 Side G

               1.            Herd Culling

               2.            I Drive the Hearse 

               3.            Sleep Together 

 Side H

               1.            Collapse the Light Into Earth

               2.            Halo

               3.            Trains

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