Porcupine Tree – Fear Of A Blank Planet
Tracklist
| 1 | Fear Of A Blank Planet | 7:28 | |
| 2 | My Ashes | 5:07 | |
| 3 | Anesthetize | 17:42 | |
| 4 | Sentimental | 5:26 | |
| 5 | Way Out Of Here | 7:37 | |
| 6 | Sleep Together | 7:28 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Porcupine Tree
- Copyright © – Porcupine Tree
- Licensed To – Kscope
- Published By – Hands Off It's Mine Publishing
- Recorded At – No Man's Land (3)
- Recorded At – Bourne Place
- Recorded At – New Rising Studios
- Recorded At – The Artillery (2)
- Recorded At – Nightspace
- Recorded At – Mark Angelo Studios
- Recorded At – Red Room Recorders
- Recorded At – DGM World Central
- Recorded At – Angel Studios
- Designed At – Aleph Studio (2)
Credits
- Arranged By [Strings] – SW*
- Bass Guitar – Colin Edwin
- Design – Carl Glover (4)
- Drums – Gavin Harrison
- Engineer [Guitars] – Mark Prator
- Engineer [Strings] – Steve Price (6)
- Guest, Backing Vocals – John Wesley (3)
- Keyboards, Synthesizer – Richard Barbieri
- Leader [London Session Orchestra] – Gavyn Wright
- Lyrics By – Steven Wilson
- Management – Andy Leff
- Mixed By, Mastered By – Steven Wilson
- Music By – Steven Wilson (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6)
- Orchestrated By [Strings] – Dave Stewart
- Other [Strings Session Fixer] – Isobel Griffiths
- Performer [Strings] – London Session Orchestra*
- Photography By – Lasse Hoile
- Producer [Guitars] – SW*
- Producer, Arranged By – Porcupine Tree
- Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards – Steven Wilson
Notes
Comes in a 2- Mediabook with 24-page booklet.
Written in London and Tel Aviv between Jan-July 2006.
Recorded between Oct-Dec 2006.
Recorded at No Man's Land, Bourne Place, New Rising, The Artillery, Nightspace, Mark Angelo, Red Room Recorders, DGM.
Strings recorded at Angel Studio.
℗ 2007 Porcupine Tree under exclusive licence to Kscope © 2012 Porcupine Tree. Kscope is a Snapper Music label.
Made in China.
Written in London and Tel Aviv between Jan-July 2006.
Recorded between Oct-Dec 2006.
Recorded at No Man's Land, Bourne Place, New Rising, The Artillery, Nightspace, Mark Angelo, Red Room Recorders, DGM.
Strings recorded at Angel Studio.
℗ 2007 Porcupine Tree under exclusive licence to Kscope © 2012 Porcupine Tree. Kscope is a Snapper Music label.
Made in China.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (As Printed): 802644822921
- Matrix / Runout: KSCOPE229 DISC
- Mastering SID Code: none
- Mould SID Code: ifpi Y231
- Mould SID Code (Variant 2): ifpi Y239
Other Versions (5 of 55)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Fear Of A Blank Planet (CD, Album) | Roadrunner Records | RR 8011-2 | Europe | 2007 | |||
| Fear Of A Blank Planet (CD, , DVD, DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, Multichannel, NTSC, multichannel, All Media, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition) | Roadrunner Records | RR 8011-5 | Europe | 2007 | |||
| Fear Of A Blank Planet (CD, Album) | Atlantic | 2-115900 | US | 2007 | |||
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Fear Of A Blank Planet (2×LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Blue/Black Marbled) | Tonefloat | TF 40 | Netherlands | 2007 | ||
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Fear Of A Blank Planet (2×LP, Album, 180 Gram) | Tonefloat | tf40 | Netherlands | 2007 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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By 2007 Porcupine Tree was already a successful and revered prog powerhouse, and several of their albums were counted among the genre’s finest.
However, up to that point I only truly enjoyed scattered songs by them, bits and pieces here and there of the already large body of work Steven Wilson had been creating under the PT banner.
“Fear Of A Blank Planet” was received with unanimous praise, so I gave the band another go. At first I thought the same as I did about the previous albums: there was undeniable quality in there, but it just didn’t move me the same as other prog acts did. And yet something made me keep trying.
Weeks later, one evening by the time “Sleep Together” finished, I found myself staring at the stereo, trying to define what I had just heard. Since then I've been a fan, and I guess you can say “FOABP” remains my favourite PT album.
The album feels like the natural evolution of everything the band had been doing up to that point, with the title song opening with a blast in the “Deadwing” or “Blackest Eyes” fashion, ruled by almost metal riffing at some point but never forgetting to slow down at crucial moments. “My Ashes”, drenched in sweeping strings and keys, is the first hit in the feels as you feel drifting like the ashes in the title. Together with “Sentimental” and “Way Out Of Here”, they cut through your heart as razors as they unfold a gloomy view on the younger generations, numbed by technology, drugs and mental health problems with devastating lyrics like:
"I never wanna be old
And I don't want dependents
It's no fun to be told
That you can't blame your parents anymore"
And then there’s “Anesthetize”: one of those crowning songwriting achievements that Steven Wilson creates from time to time, and maybe my favourite PT song. The way it ebbs and flows is just unreal, how the harmonies and different parts engage like clockwork as they march through the harsh and the delicate while creating beauty out of the bleakest, darkest views on society, the jewel of the crown in an album that deservedly sits among the best prog records of the 21st century.
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