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The Incident by Porcupine Tree

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Occam's Razor 1:55 41,960
2 The Blind House 5:47 55,670
3 Great Expectations 1:26 55,811
4 Kneel and Disconnect 2:03 57,552
5 Drawing the Line 4:43 55,110
6 The Incident 5:20 50,123
7 Your Unpleasant Family 1:48 50,392
8 The Yellow Windows of the Evening Train 2:00 49,481
9 Time Flies 11:42 56,128
10 Degree Zero of Liberty 1:45 47,730
11 Octane Twisted 5:03 46,796
12 The Seance 2:39 39,197
13 Circle of Manias 2:18 45,698
14 I Drive the Hearse 6:42 46,791
15 Flicker 0:57 44,090
16 Bonnie the Cat 0:57 42,786
17 Black Dahlia 0:57 42,596
18 Remember Me Lover 0:57 41,139
19 Way Out of Here (Live In Tilburg) 0:30 882
20 What Happens Now? (Live In Tilburg) 0:30 790
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Released: 11 Sep 2009 20 tracks (59:59)
The Incident is the tenth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Around March and April, Wilson commented the 35-minute song kept evolving, becoming a 55-minute song occupying the entire 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 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.

- Concept
“There was a sign saying ‘POLICE – INCIDENT’ and everyone was slowing down to rubber neck 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 neighbors, 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.”
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  • Tim_19 wrote:
    December 2011
    brilliant album

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  • ZelosWilder88 wrote:
    November 2011
    Took a while to grow on me, but now that it did I love it.

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  • Spiral-Circus wrote:
    October 2011
    Masterpiece.

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  • Milanowitsj wrote:
    September 2011
    Very nice album, just also very different then any other PT Album and a bit hard to get used to :) Ive seen this live and it was fking awesome!

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  • ajellendersen wrote:
    August 2011
    Good!

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  • Jemand92 wrote:
    July 2011
    "Worst album"...? The porcupine tree doesn't have any bad album, so the superlative isn't available either ;)

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  • Flynner11 wrote:
    June 2011
    I don't care what others say, this is a great album. Not as great as some of theirs others, but certainly great independently.

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  • YOMOTHAINLAW wrote:
    June 2011
    i do like how you can hear things really clear on it

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  • The Creed wrote:
    June 2011
    Easily their worst album (besides On The Sunday of Life) [2]

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  • NWG369 wrote:
    May 2011
    Easily their worst album (besides On The Sunday of Life)

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  • Dum_Dum_Boy wrote:
    February 2011
    I always thought that there is Obama on the album cover

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  • WaYNEIX wrote:
    January 2011
    Meh. [2] fucking MEH...

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  • thunderoq wrote:
    January 2011
    this album is great, even better than Deadwing, no doubt. The Incident is more melodic, has way better sound and everything ... good to see (and HEAR) that lot of rock bands are getting back from that fucked up loudness war and doing some normal-sounding albums again, this one is brilliant!!! :-))

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  • Wonderglue wrote:
    January 2011
    I just realized that this album is, in fact amazing.

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  • Oudo64 wrote:
    January 2011
    This is the most underrated album imaginable. I can't fathom the hate it gets.

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  • steelbrother wrote:
    December 2010
    Absolute fav with FOABP, for the moment \m/

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  • MaeHolmewintton wrote:
    November 2010
    Coisa mais abobada essa de ficar comparando disco 1 com disco 2. [2] And the first is one single song, the second has three diferent songs... Wankers This CD is completly unic and also and I think it's a really good job this conceptual album. Magnific ._.

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  • Kosmoso_Ragana wrote:
    November 2010
    listening+scrobbling is my formula of joy. It's just strange how scrobbling comes to your mind first, while the primary thing is listening. And don't go deeper into the shit 'k?) (And btw, do you mean you never listen to the incident in your car (getaway car in a getaway car in a getaway car car car car car © Aesop ROCK (sorry, couldn't resist)) or anywhere else? It seems so, cause you're only SCROBBLING it. Ok ok, I'll stop now, it's a pointless discussion and we both know that:D

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  • Scantily wrote:
    November 2010
    BUT don't get me wrong! It really is a great record and a thousand times better than what's out there. Steven Wilson is still a genious but I'm used with him always blowing my mind with new things. The Incident feels a bit "thrown together" compared to other stuff he's done.. It could have been so much better if it wouldn't have been for those things I just mentioned. They really did a great job with it live though. Much better live than on the actual record.

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  • Scantily wrote:
    November 2010
    It really is a good album and a piece of art itself but there are a couple of things I have problems with: The electronic beat in The Incident sounds WAY too similiar to the one used in Abandoner, The Yeallow Windows Of The Evening Train is a really beautiful special PT-piece if it wouldn't have been for the existance of Sigur Rós, Time Flies is a bit too Floyd-rip off, Remember Me Lover is very similar too Insurgentes in some parts and the lyrics are too shallow to have been done by SW. That's the major problems with the album. Then there's smaller things like the guitar sound in many songs sounds too Insurgentis-isch, Kneel And Disconnect sounds more like a Blackfield- than a PT-song, the transformation from The Séance to Circle of Manias should kick more imo and after Circle of Manias there is a silence in the song-circle (and they said disc 1 would be one entire 55 min.-song, imo it's more a couple of great tunes with similiar theme and well made bridges between them).

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