Artist: PORCUPINE TREE
Album: THE INCIDENT LTD. EDIT. (2CD+DVD DIGI)

Year: 2009
Media type: CD

The band started recording the album in February 2009. This was confirmed by the band, posting this message on their official website "Writing for the next PT studio record is well underway, with the band recently spending 2 weeks scheduled in the English countryside working on new tracks. Recording of these pieces and a new 35-minute song cycle [written by Steven Wilson] were due to start in February..." A tour has been announced on the band's website and MySpace, along with dates, following release of the new album. Around March and April, Wilson commented the 35-minute song kept evolving, becoming a 55-minute song occupying the entire disc.

On June 12, 2009, the details of The Incident were revealed on the Porcupine Tree website: "the record is set to be released via Roadrunner Records worldwide on September 22, as a double CD: the centre-piece is the title track, which takes up the whole of the first disc. The 55-minute work is described as a slightly surreal song cycle about beginnings and endings and the sense that ‘after this, things will never be the same again’; the release date was later on moved to September 15. The self-produced album is completed by four standalone compositions that developed out of band writing sessions last December - Flicker, Bonnie the Cat, Black Dahlia, and Remember Me Lover feature on a separate EP length disc to stress their independence from the song cycle." On July 13, the first preview of the album was posted at both Roadrunner and band's MySpace pages. The track Time Flies, described by Steven Wilson as "sentimental" and the "centerpiece" of the album, will also become a music video directed by usual Porcupine Tree collaborator Lasse Hoile, along with an edited single.

“There was a sign saying ‘POLICE – INCIDENT’ and everyone was slowing down to rubber neck to see what had happened... Afterwards, it struck me that ‘incident’ is a very detached word for something so destructive and traumatic for the people involved. And then I had the sensation that the spirit of someone that had died in the accident entered into my car and was sitting next to me. “The irony of such a cold expression for such seismic events appealed to me, and I began to pick out other ‘incidents’ reported in the media and news,” continues Wilson. “I wrote about the evacuation of teenage girls from a religious cult in Texas, a family terrorizing its neighbors, a body found floating in a river by some people on a fishing trip, and more. Each song is written in the first person and tries to humanize the detached media reportage.”
- Steven Wilson -

TRACKLIST CD1:

1. "The Incident" - 55:08

I. "Occam's Razor"
II. "The Blind House"
III. "Great Expectations"
IV. "Kneel and Disconnect"
V. "Drawing the Line"
VI. "The Incident"
VII. "Your Unpleasant Family"
VIII. "The Yellow Windows of the Evening Train"
IX. "Time Flies"
X. "Degree Zero of Liberty"
XI. "Octane Twisted"
XII. "The Seance"
XIII. "Circle of Manias"
XIV. "I Drive the Hearse"

TRACKLIST CD2:

1. "Flicker" Steven Wilson 3:42
2. "Bonnie the Cat" Steven Wilson 5:45
3. "Black Dahlia" Steven Wilson 3:40
4. "Remember Me Lover" Steven Wilson 7:28

LINE-UP:

Steven Wilson - vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer
Richard Barbieri - keyboards, synthesizer, programming
Colin Edwin - bass guitar
Gavin Harrison - drums