Closure/Continuation

Closure/Continuation is the upcoming eleventh studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Their first studio album since 2009's The Incident, it is scheduled to be released on 24 June 2022 through Music For Nations.[1]

Closure/Continuation
Studio album by
Porcupine Tree
Released24 June 2022
Genre
LabelMusic For Nations
ProducerPorcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree chronology
The Incident
(2009)		 Closure/Continuation
(2022)
Singles from Closure/Continuation
  1. "Harridan"
    Released: 1 November 2021 (2021-11-01)

Background

After finishing the supporting tour for The Incident in 2010, Porcupine Tree went on indefinite hiatus, as frontman Steven Wilson focused on his solo work and other band members began working on other projects. During the following years, Wilson gave various statements considering the band's activity and possible reformation; in 2018, he ruled out a possible comeback.[2] However, in January 2021, Wilson stated that "[Porcupine Tree] will probably make another record one day. I don't know when. We'll probably do it at the moment everyone's least expecting it."[3]

On 28 October 2021, Porcupine Tree, Wilson and drummer Gavin Harrison released a short teaser video on their social media pages, with a question mark and a hashtag "PTCC".[4] On 1 November, the band revealed a release of a new studio album, titled Closure/Continuation, and a supporting tour in late 2022. The reforming line-up will be a trio consisting of Wilson, Harrison and Richard Barbieri, with long-time bassist Colin Edwin not returning.[1] On the same day, the band released "Harridan", the first single from the album. The band explained that the material for Closure/Continuation has been in the making since the release of The Incident:

"Harridan" and a few of the other new songs have been in play since shortly after the release of The Incident. They initially lived on a hard drive in a slowly growing computer file marked PT2012, later renamed PT2015, PT2018, and so on. There were times when we even forgot they were there, and times when they nagged us to finish them to see where they would take us. Listening to the finished pieces, it was clear that this wasn't like any of our work outside of the band – the combined DNA of the people behind the music meant these tracks were forming what was undeniably, unmistakably, obviously a Porcupine Tree record."[5]

According to their website, the album was completed in September 2021.[6]

Release

The album is scheduled to be released on 24 June 2022 as seven different versions: CD and vinyl deluxe box sets, limited transparent blue double vinyl, standard double vinyl, standard CD, cassette and digital download.[7]

Personnel

References
  1. "We are proud to finally present an album 12 years in the making – Closure / Continuation". Facebook. November 1, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  2. "Steven Wilson Eonmusic Interview March 2018". Eonmusic. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  3. Trapp, Philip (February 17, 2021). "Steven Wilson: Porcupine Tree Could Return When Fans Least Expect It". Loudwire. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  4. "?". Facebook. October 28, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  5. Childers, Chad (November 1, 2021). "Porcupine Tree Drop 'Harridan', First Song in Nearly 12 Years, Announce New Album". Loudwire. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  6. "Porcupine Tree official website". Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  7. "Porcupine Tree official store". Retrieved November 2, 2021.
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