PORCUPINE TREE

Fear Of A Blank Planet: Deluxe Edition TRANSMISSION

POLLY GLASS

Inside the modern prog standard bearers’ definitive album – and how it got there. In early 2006, Steven Wilson was 38, living in Tel Aviv and experiencing “a second adolescence”. Surrounded by noise, heat and confident people – including Blackfield bandmate Aviv Geffen – it was the closest thing the introverted muso had to a Bacchanalian Rolling Stones phase. During this time he wrote a lot of songs and read Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis’s visceral tale of disillusioned adolescence. “It’s the ultimate expression of their style.” As Wilson tells journalist Stephen Humphries in the engaging book portion of this reissue, it was a creatively fertile period that set the tone for Porcupine Tree’s ninth album. Running with Lunar Park’s themes of pill-popping, screen-gazing teenagers and modern day isolation –…

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