PORCUPINE TREE announces ‘Closure/Continuation Live’ live album

PORCUPINE TREE announces 'Closure/Continuation Live' live album, shares new video for "Harridan"

07-11-2023

Grammy Award-nominated British rock band PORCUPINE TREE has announced “Closure/Continuation.Live”, an all-new live album documenting their return to the stage in 2022. “Closure/Continuation.Live” arrives via Music For Nations/Megaforce Records on Friday, December 8 in a wide range of formats including 2CD/2Blu-ray deluxe version (with 60-page book in a slipcase), vinyl boxset (with 4 x 12″ limited heavyweight clear vinyl),and Blu-ray/DVD (featuring the full live show). Both Blu-ray sets include Dolby Atmos surround sound, 5.1 Audio and 24-bit high-resolution audio. Pre-orders are available now. 500 signed 8″x 8″ art prints will be randomly assigned to ensure all pre-orders have an equal chance of receiving one.

Recorded November 7, 2022 at Amsterdam’s 17,000-capacity Ziggo Dome, “Closure/Continuation.Live” captures PORCUPINE TREE — Steven Wilson (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Richard Barbieri (keyboards, synthesizers), Gavin Harrison (drums) playing a set of songs including the “Harridan”, premiering today alongside an official live video streaming now on YouTube.

Watch “Harridan” below.

“Closure/Continuation.Live” — which features Wilson, Barberi and Harrison and touring musicians Randy McStine (guitars) and Nate Navarro (bass) — places the listener/viewer right at the heart of the stage as psychotropic visuals explode alongside songs from 2022’s acclaimed eleventh studio album (and first new LP in over twelve years),“Closure/Continuation”, as well as classic tracks from their rich canon, including “Trains”, “Fear Of A Blank Planet” and “Anesthetize”.

One of the most forward-thinking, genre-defying rock bands of any era, PORCUPINE TREE was founded in 1987 by renowned musician/producer Steven Wilson as an outlet for the experimental recordings he was making outside of his acclaimed post-rock duo NO-MAN. With the addition of keyboard player Richard Barbieri and drummer Gavin Harrison, PORCUPINE TREE soon evolved into a proper band, releasing ten studio albums between 1992 and 2009. Each new release saw PORCUPINE TREE exploring new musical ideas, their expansive music shifting from pastoral psychedelic rock and ambient electronic soundscapes to experimental pop and propulsive metal. Later releases like 2007’s Grammy Award-nominated “Fear Of A Blank Planet” and 2009’s “The Incident” — the band’s biggest seller thus far, reaching the Top 25 in both the U.S. and the U.K. — saw PORCUPINE TREE effortlessly melding distinctive genres to create a groundbreaking musical universe all their own.

As relentlessly creative on stage as they are in the studio, PORCUPINE TREE proved innovative live performers known for sonic innovation and inventive visual productions. In October 2010, the band entered a period of hiatus following a spectacular concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall — their biggest live show to date.

Recorded quietly and sporadically over the last decade and finished during a period when touring was curtailed in 2020/21, “Closure/Continuation” marked PORCUPINE TREE‘s long awaited return and most collaborative album of their highly lauded career. A stunning and timely reappearance of one of rock’s most consistently innovative and influential bands, the album was met by ecstatic praise and chart success around the world, reaching No. 2 on the official U.K. album chart, No. 1 in Germany, and Top 10 all across Europe. PORCUPINE TREE marked “Closure/Continuation” with a wide ranging, wildly ambitious global tour — their first since October 2010 — that saw them perform to over 150,000 enraptured fans at sold-out arenas across four continents.

“Closure/Continuation.Live” track listing:

CD/Blu-ray box:

2x CDs (full live show),2 Blu-ray discs. Disc 1 features full show + bonus material; disc 2 features Dolby Atmos Surround Sound audio, 5.1 Surround Sound audio and 24-bit high-resolution audio.
01. Blackest Eyes
02. Harridan
03. Of the New Day
04. Rats Return
05. Even Less
06. Drown With Me
07. Dignity
08. The Sound Of Muzak
09. Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
10. Chimera’s Wreck
11. Fear Of A Blank Planet
12. Buying New Soul
13. Walk The Plank
14. Sentimental
15. Herd Culling
16. Anesthetize
17. I Drive The Hearse
18. Sleep Together
19. Collapse the Light Into Earth
20. Halo
21. Trains

Blu-ray/ DVD:

1x Blu-ray disc with full live show + Dolby Atmos Surround Sound audio, 5.1 audio and 24-bit high-resolution audio (excluding bonus features),1x DVD of full live show.
01. Blackest Eyes
02. Harridan
03. Of The New Day
04. Rats Return
05. Even Less
06. Drown With Me
07. Dignity
08. The Sound Of Muzak
09. Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
10. Chimera’s Wreck
11. Fear of a Blank Planet
12. Buying New Soul
13. Walk The Plank
14. Sentimental
15. Herd Culling
16. Anesthetize
17. I Drive The Hearse
18. Sleep Together
19. Collapse the Light Into Earth
20. Halo
21. Trains

4 x 12″ VINYL:
Side A
01. Blackest Eyes
02. Harridan
03. Of The New Day
Side B
01. Return
02. Even Less
03. Drown With Me

Side C
01. Dignity
02. Sound Of Muzak
03. Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled

Side D
01. Chimera’s Wreck
02. Fear of a Blank Planet

Side E
01. Soul
02. Walk The Plank
03. Sentimental

Side F
01. Anesthetize

Side G
01. Herd Culling
02. I Drive the Hearse
03. Sleep Together

Side H
01. Collapse the Light Into Earth
02. Halo
03. Trains

“Closure/Continuation” is available as a seven-track standard CD, standard black vinyl 2×12″ LP, white vinyl 2×12″ LP, transparent blue vinyl 2×12″ LP, limited edition white cassette, and digital download. A limited audiophile deluxe LP will also be available, cut at 45rpm on 3×12″ clear vinyl in 12″ slipcase box with two bonus tracks; a limited audiophile deluxe CD in 12″ slipcase box will include the standard CD, a second disc with three bonus tracks and album instrumentals, Blu-ray disc with 5.1/Dolby Atmos and HD audio versions of the album, and an exclusive album art book. “Closure/Continuation” — which follows 2009’s best-selling “The Incident” — includes such recently released singles as “Herd Culling”, “Of The New Day” and the labyrinthine “Harridan”, all available now at DSPs and streaming services. An array of official lyric videos, visualizers, and exclusive “Gear Talk” conversations with Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri and Gavin Harrison are streaming now at YouTube. Highlights include a stunning session performance of “Of The New Day”, filmed and recorded earlier this year at London’s world-famous AIR Studios.

CLOSURE/CONTINUATION FORMATSOver a decade in the making, ‘Closure/Continuation’ is due for release on Music For Nations/Sony on 24th June 2022. It will be available as a seven track album on standard CD/double vinyl/coloured vinyl or limited cassette. The deluxe LP version comes on audiophile approved crystal clear vinyl as a 3xLP 45rpm boxset with two bonus tracks; the deluxe CD & Bluray boxset comes with three bonus tracks, instrumental versions, and high resolution 96/24 stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos versions of the album, all housed in an exclusive art book.

– Standard CD– Limited Audiophile deluxe CD in 12” slipcase box (standard CD, second disc with 3 extra tracks and instrumentals, Blu-ray disc with 5.1/Dolby Atmos and HD audio PLUS exclusive album art book)– Standard LP (2 x black 12”)– Coloured Vinyl (Coloured vinyl (2 x white 12”)White) [Bricks and Mortar Exclusive]– Coloured Vinyl (Black and White Swirl) [Spotify “Fan First” Exclusive]– Coloured Vinyl) (2 x transparent blue 12”) [D2C Exclusive]– Limited Audiophile deluxe LP in 12” slipcase box (9 track album cut at 45rpm on 3 x clear 12”)[D2C Exclusive]– Cassette (White) [D2C Exclusive]– Digital download and streaming platforms

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