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| Porcupine Tree: U.S. Tour and New EP This fall, Porcupine Tree will continue a momentous year of activity with their biggest-ever U.S. tour, a new EP, Nil Recurring, and the re-release of their groundbreaking album Fear of a Blank Planet on DVD-A and vinyl. Fear has quickly become the best-selling and best-reviewed album of the band's career, and they have already sold out one major U.S. tour in 2007. Playing larger venues than on any previous U.S. visit, Porcupine Tree kick off their fall tour October 3 in Orlando, and will make stops at The Beacon Theatre in New York City on October 13 and at Voodoo Fest in New Orleans on October 26. At Voodoo Fest, they join a lineup that includes Rage Against The Machine, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Wilco. On September 25, the band will release Nil Recurring, a 4-track, EP written during the Fear of a Blank Planet sessions. The disc includes the title track, which features Robert Fripp (of King Crimson) on guitar, and "Cheating the Polygraph", which was premiered on the 2006 tour, but subsequently left off the Fear of a Blank Planet album. Porcupine Tree will also burnish its reputation for producing some of the best-sounding albums in the world when they release a DVD-A of Fear of a Blank Planet September 25 in lossless 5.1 surround sound, as well as exclusive 5.1 mixes of four bonus tracks appearing on Nil Recurring. Finally, On October 3, vinyl specialists ToneFloat will issue Fear of a Blank Planet as a 180 gram double vinyl edition. It will also include the tracks from the forthcoming Nil Recurring. In addition, a special limited edition of only 1, 000 copies will be pressed on blue/black marbled 180 gram double vinyl, housed in a numbered picture slipcase, containing a glossy full-colour 16-page 12x12inch booklet. The limited edition will only be available directly through ToneFloat and the Porcupine Tree store. Porcupine Tree have earned superlative reviews for Fear of a Blank Planet, which includes contributions from Robert Fripp of King Crimson and Rush's Alex Lifeson. Mojo called it "dazzling… like Radiohead playing Kashmir" in a 4 star review, while Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times declared it the near-equal of Dark Side of The Moon or OK Computer, "because the six-track, 51-minute exploration of heady ideas is as gripping musically as it is lyrically… easily as strong as any of the band's previous eight releases, and the most timely." write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |