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The Incident by Porcupine Tree

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Occam's Razor 1:55 44,394
2 The Blind House 5:47 58,522
3 Great Expectations 1:26 60,503
4 Kneel and Disconnect 2:03 60,370
5 Drawing the Line 4:43 59,788
6 The Incident 5:20 52,727
7 Your Unpleasant Family 1:48 54,533
8 The Yellow Windows of the Evening Train 2:00 52,082
9 Time Flies 11:42 59,506
10 Degree Zero of Liberty 1:45 51,256
11 Octane Twisted 5:03 50,712
12 The Seance 2:39 40,981
13 Circle of Manias 2:18 47,925
14 I Drive the Hearse 6:42 48,979
15 Flicker 0:57 46,115
16 Bonnie the Cat 0:57 44,781
17 Black Dahlia 0:57 44,689
18 Remember Me Lover 0:57 43,013
19 Way Out of Here (Live In Tilburg) 0:30 884
20 What Happens Now? (Live In Tilburg) 0:30 794
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About this album

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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  • juanbrujox

    This album is awesome in a strange way

    last month

  • Ulubione88

    chyba najsłabsza płyta...:(

    last month

  • GRAMPAPROG

    it sucks

    last month

  • Grimmoire

    Time Flies is awesome. An overall soothing, part-sexy, crunchy riff-filled album.

    last month

  • robboelrobbo

    Why do people hate it so much? It's a fantastic album.

    March 2012

  • Tim_19

    brilliant album

    December 2011

  • ZelosWilder88

    Took a while to grow on me, but now that it did I love it.

    November 2011

  • Spiral-Circus

    Masterpiece.

    October 2011

  • Milanowitsj

    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!

    September 2011

  • ajellendersen

    Good!

    August 2011

  • Jemand92

    "Worst album"...? The porcupine tree doesn't have any bad album, so the superlative isn't available either ;)

    July 2011

  • Flynner11

    I don't care what others say, this is a great album. Not as great as some of theirs others, but certainly great independently.

    June 2011

  • YOMOTHAINLAW

    i do like how you can hear things really clear on it

    June 2011

  • The Creed

    Easily their worst album (besides On The Sunday of Life) [2]

    June 2011

  • Dum_Dum_Boy

    I always thought that there is Obama on the album cover

    February 2011

  • WaYNEIX

    Meh. [2] fucking MEH...

    January 2011

  • thunderoq

    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!!! :-))

    January 2011

  • Wonderglue

    I just realized that this album is, in fact amazing.

    January 2011

  • Oudo64

    This is the most underrated album imaginable. I can't fathom the hate it gets.

    January 2011

  • steelbrother

    Absolute fav with FOABP, for the moment \m/

    December 2010
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