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The Incident
Studio album by Porcupine Tree
Released	September 14, 2009
Genre	Progressive rock, progressive metal, experimental rock
Length	75:56
Label	Roadrunner Records
Producer	Porcupine Tree
Professional reviews
Allmusic [1] CHARTattack [2] Caller-Times (3/5)[3] DOA (positive) [4] NOW [5] PopMatters [6] Radio City [7] Rocksound (9/10) [8] Rolling Stone [9] Weekender [10]
Porcupine Tree chronology
Fear of a Blank Planet (2007) The Incident (2009)

The Incident is the tenth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. It was released on September 14, 2009 through Roadrunner Records.^[11]

Contents 1 History 2 Concept 3 Track listing 3.1 Disc one 3.2 Disc two 4 Personnel 5 Production 6 Charts 7 References

[edit] History

The band started recording the album in February 2009. This was confirmed by the band, posting this message on their official website: "Writing for the next PT studio record is well underway, with the band recently spending 2 weeks scheduled in the English countryside working on new tracks. Recording of these pieces and a new 35-minute song cycle [written by Steven Wilson] were due to start in February..." A tour has been announced on the band's website and MySpace, along with dates, following release of the new album.^[12] Around March and April, Wilson commented the 35-minute song kept evolving, becoming a 55-minute song occupying the entire disc.

On June 12, 2009, the details of The Incident were revealed on the Porcupine Tree website: "the record is set to be released via Roadrunner Records worldwide on September 22, as a double CD: the centre-piece is the title track, which takes up the whole of the first disc. The 55-minute work is described as a slightly surreal song cycle about beginnings and endings and the sense that ‘after this, things will never be the same again’; the release date was later on moved to September 15. The self-produced album is completed by four standalone compositions that developed out of band writing sessions last December - Flicker, Bonnie the Cat, Black Dahlia, and Remember Me Lover feature on a separate EP length disc to stress their independence from the song cycle."^[13] On July 13, the first preview of the album was posted at both Roadrunner and band's MySpace pages. The track Time Flies, described by Steven Wilson as "sentimental" and the "centerpiece" of the album, became a music video directed by usual Porcupine Tree collaborator Lasse Hoile, along with an edited single. ^[14]

[edit] Concept

“There was a sign saying ‘POLICE – INCIDENT’ and everyone was slowing down to rubberneck to see what had happened... Afterwards, it struck me that ‘incident’ is a very detached word for something so destructive and traumatic for the people involved. And then I had the sensation that the spirit of someone that had died in the accident entered into my car and was sitting next to me. “The irony of such a cold expression for such seismic events appealed to me, and I began to pick out other ‘incidents’ reported in the media and news,” continues Wilson. “I wrote about the evacuation of teenage girls from a religious cult in Texas, a family terrorizing its neighbours, a body found floating in a river by some people on a fishing trip, and more. Each song is written in the first person and tries to humanize the detached media reportage.”^[15]

— Steven Wilson

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

[edit] Disc two

These two bonus tracks were recorded in Tilburg, The Netherlands, in 2008 for their upcoming live DVD of the tour cycle.

[edit] Personnel

• Steven Wilson - vocals, guitars, keyboards
• Richard Barbieri - synthesizers, keyboards
• Colin Edwin - bass guitar, double bass
• Gavin Harrison - drums, percussion

[edit] Production

• Arranged & Produced By Porcupine Tree
• Engineers: Steve Orchard, John Wesley (engineered guitars)
• Mastering: Jon Astley

[edit] Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Dutch Albums Chart	5[16]
Polish Album Chart	5[16]
Billboard Rock Albums	7[17]
Finnish Albums Chart	11[16]
German Albums Chart	17[16]
Switzerland Album Chart	20[16]
Canadian Album Chart	23[17]
UK Albums Chart	23[16]
Billboard 200	25[17]
Australian Record Industry Association	35[16]
Austrian Album Chart	45[16]
Belgian (Vl) Album Chart	79[18]
Belgian (Wa) Album Chart	40[18]
French Album Chart	35[16]
Italian Album Chart	35[16]
Norwegian Album Chart	19[16]
Spanish Album Chart	77[16]
Swedish Album Chart	23[16]

[edit] References

v • d • e Porcupine Tree Richard Barbieri · Colin Edwin · Gavin Harrison · Steven Wilson Chris Maitland · John Wesley (live guitarist) Studio albums On the Sunday of Life · Up the Downstair · The Sky Moves Sideways · Signify · Stupid Dream · Lightbulb Sun · In Absentia · Deadwing · Fear of a Blank Planet  · The Incident EPs Voyage 34: Remixes · Moonloop · Staircase Infinities · Nil Recurring Live albums Spiral Circus · Coma Divine - Recorded Live in Rome · XM · XMII · Warszawa · Rockpalast · Arriving Somewhere... · We Lost the Skyline · Ilosaarirock Compilations Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape · Voyage 34: The Complete Trip · Insignificance  · Metanoia · Recordings · Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991-1997 Singles "Voyage 34" · "Waiting" · "Piano Lessons" · "Stranger by the Minute" · "Pure Narcotic" · "Four Chords That Made a Million" · "Shesmovedon" · "Shallow" · "Lazarus" · "Fear of a Blank Planet" · "Way Out of Here" · "Time Flies" DVD Arriving Somewhere... Other releases Tarquin's Seaweed Farm · Love, Death & Mussolini · The Nostalgia Factory · Transmission IV Related articles Porcupine Tree discography · No-Man · Bass Communion · Blackfield · Headphone Dust · I.E.M. · Burning Shed · Transmission · Lasse Hoile · Guilt Machine · Opeth