Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
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Artist: Porcupine TreeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Music Label: Peaceville UK
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A solid EP comprised of songs written/recorded during the same sessions as 2007's somewhat out-of-character Fear of a Blank Planet, Nil Recurring proves that Porcupine Tree haven't lost their touch. After two albums that met success in the mainstream, they've changed directions yet again.
Alternating between hypnotic, smeary bass grooves and coughing up bits of reheated A Perfect Circle leftovers, the spacey title track begins the album with an entirely instrumental bang. Think "Blue." At the other end, the closing jam of "What Happens Now?" assumes a near pure-bred Nine Inch Nails electronic patina, with filtered string bends and a clan of noisily robotic samples lending propulsion to the song's vamp.
In between, an electrified "Normal" holds out 'til the end on the gorgeous vocal harmonization witnessed on We Lost the Skyline. The shimmery acoustic lines also survive, but are augmented in-studio. "Normal"'s romp through the professional recording studio piles on Sabbath overdrive and more atmospherics. But it's the laid-back, staring at the sky splendor of the surging, sinister "Cheating the Polygraph" which wins "best track" here: the quieter, jazzier moments (2:08 and on) are off-set by piles of "Blackest Eyes" caliber Sabbath riffwork that doesn't hurt the brain.
You can't go wrong with Porcupine Tree. Though they've had eighteen records in which to do so, they haven't put out an absolute dud yet. Nil Recurring should be indicative of the next waters on the horizon for these prog-rock torch bearers.
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