Porcupine Tree unexpectedly got here again in 2022 with a brand new file Closure/Continuation (plus a stay album referred to as Closure/Continuation.Dwell), and performed a bunch of exhibits in help of the file all through 2022 and 2023. Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson has since gone again to specializing in his solo work, although he does firmly consider there will probably be a follow-up to Closure/Continuation.
In an interview with Innerviews, Wilson responded to a query about new music and the way forward for the band saying: “It’s kind of too early to say, to be trustworthy. Once more, they’re completely different. I feel a bit like my solo profession, Porcupine Tree has reached some extent the place we do not wish to attempt to do something besides be ourselves. We do not wish to fear about what folks anticipate of us—not that we ever did.
“We’re having fun with the method. I really like working with Gavin Harrison and Richard Barbieri. And the apparent factor for me now could be that as a result of the solo profession is established, I am way more capable of be a part of a democratic band in a means I wasn’t again within the day. I used to really feel the necessity to management it extra. Now, I do not. In actual fact, I relish the thought of giving up management and maybe not getting my very own means on a regular basis. I am open to not essentially doing issues the best way I might have accomplished them myself.
“I feel Porcupine Tree going ahead will not be extremely prolific. We could not tour once more. However I feel we’ll positively make at the least another file. It might even be the subsequent venture, probably. However that is as a lot as I can say in the intervening time.”
He additionally famous that he’d like to do a Porcupine Tree stay present field set, although which may show tough as he is acquired a variety of materials to dig by way of.
“I have been speaking about doing a Porcupine Tree stay field set, as a result of just about each present we performed was recorded. However that will be an enormous job to compile 12-15 exhibits that characterize every part of the band in the absolute best gentle. It could be three-to-four months’ work. When am I going to do this? I feel it is one thing I’ll get to ultimately, however it might be at a time once I take a step again from making new work. And as you see, that is not occurring proper now.”
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