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Signify
	; Cover art by John Blackford
Studio album by Porcupine Tree
Released	September, 1996
Recorded	1996
Genre	Progressive rock; Psychedelic rock; Space rock
Length	61:56
Label	Delerium
Professional reviews
	Allmusic ; Alternative Press [citation needed];
Porcupine Tree chronology
Alternate cover
	Remastered Edition

Signify is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in September, 1996. It was the first album that frontman Steven Wilson recorded with a full group of musicians on board from the beginning. Previously he had been recording albums primarily as a one-man band with help gradually from other musicians. A number of the songs (albeit in demo form) were debuted live on the The Sky Moves Sideways tour before being recorded. The song "Every Home is Wired" has been covered by Polish electronic group Cabaret and included in their single Electric Chair Song.^[2] The full quote from the background words of "Idiot Prayer" can be heard on the song Trippin' by SRM.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Original

"Bornlivedie" (Wilson/Barbieri) – 1:41
"Signify" (Wilson) – 3:26
"The Sleep of No Dreaming" (Wilson) – 5:24
"Pagan" (Wilson) – 1:34
"Waiting Phase One" (Wilson) – 4:24
"Waiting Phase Two" (Wilson) – 6:15
"Sever" (Wilson) – 5:30
"Idiot Prayer" (Wilson/Edwin) – 7:37
"Every Home Is Wired" (Wilson) – 5:08
"Intermediate Jesus" (Wilson/Barbieri/Edwin/Maitland) – 7:29
"Light Mass Prayers" (Maitland) – 4:28
"Dark Matter" (Wilson) – 8:57

[edit] Remaster

The 2003 reissue on Delerium Records contains a second disc of demos from the Signify sessions, originally released in cassette format titled Insignificance, available only to subscribers of the former Porcupine Tree information mail service called "Transmission". This disc is also included with the 2004 reissue on Snapper Music. The tracklist has been slightly altered from the cassette:

"Wake As Gun I" – 3:29
"Hallogallo" (Neu! Cover) – 3:37
"Signify" – 3:27
"Waiting" – 6:56
"Smiling Not Smiling" – 3:49
"Wake As Gun II" – 2:06
"Neural Rust" – 5:53
"Dark Origins" – 6:54
"Sever Tomorrow" – 6:04
"Nine Cats" (Acoustic Version) – 4:08

Some of the tracks are working titles of songs that were later included on the album (i.e. "Dark Origins" and "Sever Tomorrow") whilst others were not included (i.e. "Wake as Gun I" and "Wake as Gun II").

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Musicians

Steven Wilson - guitars, piano, organ, mellotron, samples, tapes, banshee guitar, drum programming, chimes, musical boxes, vocals
Richard Barbieri - synthesisers, Hammond organ, Prophet V/System 700 electronics, piano, tapes, texture, sequencers
Colin Edwin - electric bass, double bass
Chris Maitland - drums, cymbals, percussion, vocal harmonies, drum loops, keyboards and voices on "Light Mass Prayers"

[edit] Guest

Terumi - voices (track 1)

[edit] Credits

Produced and mixed by Steven Wilson.
Recorded at No Man's Land, Hemel Hempstead. Additional recording at The Doghouse, Henley with the assistance of Markus Butler and at Katrina & the Waves' Studio, Cambridge with the assistance of Steve Stewart.
Mastered by Chris Thorpe at Serendipity
Porcupine Tree Management by Richard Allen at Delerium.
All titles published by Hit and Run Music (Publishing) Ltd.
Art & Design by John Blackford.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ "allmusic ((( Signify > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tuaxqjkuojda. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
^ ":: porcupine tree covers ::". http://www.fusethesky.com/. Retrieved 2008-04-12.

[0] "allmusic ((( Signify > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tuaxqjkuojda. Retrieved 2009-11-22.

[1] ":: porcupine tree covers ::". http://www.fusethesky.com/. Retrieved 2008-04-12.

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