Closure/Continuation

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Closure/Continuation
Porcupine Tree Closure Continuation cover.jpeg
Studio album by
Porcupine Tree
Released24 June 2022
Length48:01
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)
  2. "Of the New Day"
    Released: 8 March 2022 (2022-03-08)

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.

Background[]

After finishing the touring cycle for their tenth album, The Incident in 2010, frontman Steven Wilson spent the rest of the year, and 2011, recording and releasing his second solo album, Grace for Drowning, and Blackfield's third album, Welcome to My DNA. Initially, Wilson mentioned the possibility of working on new music in "early 2012",[1] with drummer Gavin Harrison later guessing recording would occur across 2012 and release 2013.[2] However, this soon changed, with Wilson announcing that he would continue to focus his future on his solo career, including further touring and recording and releasing a third solo album, keeping him busy through the entirety of 2013.[3][4][5] Wilson still maintained that the band "haven’t split up" and that there are "no intentions of splitting up",[6] but also said there were no specific plans for a new album either.[7] While he said that he still "want(s) to get Porcupine Tree back together at some point", he said that he was not sure what direction he wants to take the band, only that he is "tired of metal music",[8] and that one member of the band does not like the jazz music direction Wilson's solo work had taken at the time.[6] He later mused after being asked "...is (there) a danger that Porcupine Tree might fall by the wayside?" with responding "The honest answer is I don’t know. The solo career for me now is probably the most important. I think about it more than anything else, I’m more focused on it than anything else, I enjoy it more than anything else..."[8] In May 2013, Wilson reiterated his stance on the band's status, stating that it's "...not to say the band has broken up or anything like that. It’s always conceivable that we could get back together in a year or five years, or 10 years. I really can’t say – there are no plans at the moment."[9] Edwin's stance mirrored this.[10]

Further time passed with little reported on the album. Wilson's success with his third solo album, The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) in February 2013, led him straight into writing and recording a fourth solo album Hand. Cannot. Erase. over the course of 2014 and releasing it in 2015, pushing hypothetical work with Porcupine Tree back further.[11] In March 2015, Wilson commented, "if Porcupine Tree [were] to get back together—and, by the way, I have never ruled that out—it will be a side project. There should be no question in anyone's mind that this is now my main musical path, my solo work."[12] Wilson's views conflicted and soured moving into further years. In February 2016, in an interview with Prog Magazine, he stated that there was a "strong possibility" of Porcupine Tree reforming for another studio album at an undisclosed time in the future.[13] However, in response to a question in August 2016 regarding a hypothetical Porcupine Tree performance, Wilson claimed, "you'd be waiting for a long time, that band doesn't exist anymore."[14] In August 2017, Wilson explained: "It's no coincidence that since my solo project has taken off, other collaborations have receded to the background. Porcupine Tree hasn't made a record since 2009 and No-Man hasn't made a record since 2008. I feel less need now to be creatively involved in something other than my solo work. My solo work fulfills the musical needs I have now."[15] In a March 2018 interview when asked about the chances of further activity from Porcupine Tree he responded; "Honestly, I would say zero, because I’m just not that kind of person. I don’t go backwards. I’m not interested in going backwards; I want to move forwards, I want to do different things, I want to work with different people, I want to explore different kinds of music. That would seem like a terribly backward step to me. I’m proud of the catalogue; it’s there, it exists, but it’s kind of closed, it’s finished."[16] However, in February 2021, Wilson suggested that a reformation was still possible someday, when it was least expected.[17]

After years of silence, the band finally saw signs of life in late 2021. After multiple days of cryptic teasers from band and band member social media accounts, the band announced their eleventh 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.[18][19] 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."[20]

According to their website, the album was completed in September 2021.[21]

Release[]

The album is scheduled to be released on 24 June 2022.[18] The first single, "Harridan", was released on 1 November 2021.[18]

Track listing[]

The standard edition album features seven tracks, with the special edition featuring an extra three bonus tracks.[22]

Standard edition
No.TitleLength
1."Harridan"8:07
2."Of the New Day"4:43
3."Rats Return"5:40
4."Dignity"8:22
5."Herd Culling"7:03
6."Walk the Plank"4:27
7."Chimera’s Wreck"9:39
Total length:48:01
Special edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
8."Population Three" 
9."Never Have" 
10."Love in the Past Tense" 

Personnel[]

References[]

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  22. ^ Krol, Charlotte (1 November 2021). "Porcupine Tree return with new single 'Harridan' and 'CLOSURE/CONTINUATION' album announcement". NME. Retrieved 9 March 2022.

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