PORCUPINE TREE The Incident (2009 UK 2-CD album set - Like 'Fear Of A Blank Planet', 'The Incident', Porcupine Tree's tenth studio album, is an elaborate conceptual piece fuelled by a 21st century cocktail of MTV, sex, prescription drugs, video games, the internet, terminal boredom and subsequent escape, taking the listener on a thrilling audio journey. In turns haunting, desolate, hypnotic and euphoric, its centre-piece is the title track - a stunning 55-minute musical statement thatbreaks down into 14 separate and often diverse [though interlinked] vignettes. Beginning slowly with 'Occam's Razor', before gaining momentum and intensity with 'The Blind House', 'Drawing The Line' and 'The Incident' itself, the group's masterful manipulation of sounds and textures is never overlooked. The album is completed by four standalone compositions all housed on a separate CD to stress their independence from the record's main 14-part suite!)
