{"id":11,"date":"2009-07-31T19:36:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T13:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:39:05","slug":"porcupine-tree-the-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/31\/porcupine-tree-the-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Porcupine Tree: The Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is big. UK progressive rock quartet <strong>Porcupine Tree<\/strong> will release their latest album &#8212; a 2CD set called <em>The Incident<\/em> on September 15. A sampler from the album is available on the group&#8217;s <a title=\"Porcupine Tree's myspace page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/porcupinetree\">myspace page<\/a>. For melodic, intelligent rock in 2009, you can&#8217;t do better than Porcupine Tree. (Read <a title=\"Bill Kopp interviews Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/features\/steven_wilson_porcupine_tree.shtml\">my 2007 interview with PT&#8217;s leader Steven Wilson<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And while PT&#8217;s not derivative, they do proudly wear some of their influences on their sleeve. Listen to the excerpt, and around the 4:00 mark, tell me it doesn&#8217;t sound exactly like Rick Wright&#8217;s organ washes that open &#8220;Us and Them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to <em>The Incident<\/em> with eager anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is big. UK progressive rock quartet Porcupine Tree will release their latest album &#8212; a 2CD set called The Incident on September 15. A sampler from the album is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30793,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/30793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}