Porcupine Tree: In absentia

REMASTERED

2 LP

180 gram vinyl

Gatefold sleeve / gatefoldsleeve

New & sealed / new & sealed

in stock / on stock

Label: K scope

Date of release: 09.03.2018

180-gram gatefold double LP on black vinyl

2002 breakthrough release now rice South on Kscope records

In absentia what Porcupine Tree's seventh studio album and the first in a run of three releases that for many fans represent the pinnacle of the band's artistic everyone.

After 2000's Lightbulb Sun, the album had a distinctly heavier tone, partly due to the addition of legendary drummer Gavin Harrison. The band's first major label lava / Atlantic records, for in absentia features several of Porcupine Tree's most loved songs including "trains," "The Sound of Muzak" and "Blackest Eyes."

While not a formal concept album, many of the songs have common themes related to serial killers, youthful innovation gone wrong, and observations about the modern world, setting a template for many of Wilson's future songs.

The album has been remastered by Steven Wilson and the 2017 master has features noticeably less compression and limiting in order to provide a more dynamic listening experience.

Tracklist:

 1 Blackest eyes
 2. trains
 3. lips of ashes
 4. The sound of Muzak
 5. Gravity eyelids
 6. Wedding nails
 7 prodigal
 8.3
 9 The creator has A master tape
 10 chloroform
 11 Ketan in A LAYBY
 12 Strip the soul
 13 Collapse the light into Earth