Fear of a Blank Planet

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Fear of a Blank Planet
Fear of a Blank Planet cover
Cover art by Lasse Hoile
Studio album by Porcupine Tree
Released April 16, 2007
Recorded October–December 2006
Genre Progressive rock
Length 50:48
Label Roadrunner (EUROPE)
Atlantic (US)
Producer Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree.
Professional reviews
Porcupine Tree chronology
XMII
(2005)		 Fear of a Blank Planet
(2007)		 Nil Recurring
(2007)

Fear of a Blank Planet (also Transmission 6.1) is the ninth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree which was released on April 16, 2007 in the UK and Europe, and on April 24, 2007 in the United States. Steven Wilson has mentioned that the album's title is a direct reference to the 1990 Public Enemy album, Fear of a Black Planet. He explained that race relations were a major issue when it was released and he sees "coming to terms with information technology and...the 21st century" as a modern issue.[1]

The album was written in Tel Aviv and London between January and July of 2006. The promotion of the record included a premiere performance of the songs during the shows of the Arriving Somewhere DVD tour between September and November of 2006,[2] though their titles were not revealed at the time, and a series of listening parties at New York's Legacy Studios[3] and London's Abbey Road Studios[4] during January of 2007, where the track titles were finally unveiled. An EP titled Nil Recurring, was released on September 17, 2007 as a continuation to the concept.

Even though it doesn't include any singles, Fear of a Blank Planet charted in almost all European countries and entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at #59. Allmusic, which gave the album a 4.5 out of 5 score, assures that "While there is no "radio single" on the disc most songs transcend their complex structure and feel as provocative as any traditional rock tune".[5] The album was highly acclaimed by the critics and gained the status of "Album Of The Year" in many magazines and websites.

Contents

[edit] Time line

The tracks from the album, excluding "Way Out of Here", (which replaced the track "Cheating the Polygraph" that was recorded but not released on the album) were debuted live during the promotional tour for the Arriving Somewhere DVD that took place from September to November, 2006. Robert Fripp, the guitarist for King Crimson, revealed that he contributed on a track called "Nil Recurring", during the Fear of a Blank Planet recording sessions.[6] The track, however, cannot be found on the album but can be found on the four track EP of the same name along with the live-only "Cheating the Polygraph".[7]

In the two months that preceded the release of the album, tracks were slowly released in parts as teasers and as leaks. In February 21, 2007, a preview containing samples of each track was posted to the band's MySpace page, as well as onto the Fear of a Blank Planet microsite. The title track was released on March 6, 2007, in the US iTunes Store as a bonus track with the album Blackfield II, the second release from Steven Wilson's side-project, Blackfield. On April 12, 2007, the CD came out in parts of Europe four days earlier than intended, and was soon leaked onto the internet.

Still from the "Fear of a Blank Planet" music video directed by Lasse Hoile
Still from the "Fear of a Blank Planet" music video directed by Lasse Hoile

In April 16, 2007, the same day as the European release date of the album, the music video for the title track debuted on Porcupine Tree's MySpace, though it was temporarily removed a day later in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre due to the band finding the content, namely children wielding guns, distasteful at the present. Wilson expressed his feelings about the tragedy:

"[...] unfortunately this whole culture we live in promotes this idea that if you’re somehow insignificant then you’re worthless. If you’re somehow not successful, if you’re not popular, if you’re not famous, if you’re not a celebrity, you are somehow worthless. And the only way to become famous if you are that piece of shit on someone’s shoe is to go into a school and blow 25 of your classmates away. Instant fame! That’s fucked up. That’s what’s wrong with the world right now."[8]

In April 25, 2007, the video was launched on the Fear of a Blank Planet microsite to view in high resolution, though since October, 2007, it has been replaced by the live projection for "Sleep Together". The video is now included as a bonus along with the 17-minute film for "Anesthetize" on the DVD-A version of FoaBP.


In April 18, 2007, in Glasgow, the band started a several month tour to promote the album which will lead them through Europe and the US until 2008. During the first run of shows on the tour, the band would play all of the album either in one go, or spread throughout the set. For the second run of shows (after the release of Nil Recurring) this was stopped.

In June 4, 2007, the song "Sentimental" was NPR's "Song Of The Day".[9]

In August 6, 2007 on the band's official website Porcupine Tree announced a new EP which was released on September 17 of the same year named Nil Recurring. It features 4 tracks (just under 30 minutes of music) that were written during the Fear of a Blank Planet sessions, including the title track featuring Robert Fripp on guitar, and "Cheating the Polygraph", which was premiered on the 2006 tour, but subsequently left off the Fear of a Blank Planet album when the band wrote "Way Out of Here" while they were in the studio recording Fear of a Blank Planet.

[edit] Writing and recording

Steven Wilson started writing the album in early 2006, in Tel Aviv, while he was recording the second Blackfield album. In the meantime, Richard Barbieri wrote most of the music for the song "My Ashes". The Blackfield album was finished in June so Wilson travelled back to London and met the other band members to work on the material he had been writing. These sessions took place between July and August and produced a good number of songs but the band picked just six for the record.[10]

Porcupine Tree's first DVD ever, titled Arriving Somewhere, was released in September, so the band started a short tour the same month to promote it and the new songs for the forthcoming album were performed during the first half of the shows.[2] Along the tour, that lasted until November, the band began recording the album, eventually rejecting the song "Cheating the Polygraph", since they felt it was somewhat weak when compared to the other five of the set list they were playing as it was the only one to which the audience reacted more or less muted, and writing a totally new song called "Way Out of Here" to replace it.[11] "Way Out of Here" was a collaboration between all band members and resulted in the only full-band composition of the record. They contacted King Crimson's guitarist Robert Fripp since he toured with them many times, so he provided some soundscapes to the song[7] and lead guitar for the track "Nil Recurring", not included in the album but later released in the EP of the same name as well as was the song "Cheating the Polygraph".

Around the time of the recording, Wilson read an interview with Rush's guitarist Alex Lifeson in Classic Rock magazine, where he admitted being a big Porcupine Tree fan, so he quickly got in touch with Alex and asked if he would like to be on the album, he was pleased to contribute[7]. Wilson wrote a section of the song "Anesthetize" for Alex Lifeson to play a solo on it. Alex recorded the solo and sent it to Wilson.

The album recording process was finished in December of the same year.[10] In January of 2007 it was revealed that the album title would be Fear of a Blank Planet.[4]

[edit] Promotion

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[edit] Premiere

Seven months prior to the release of the album, all the songs debuted live during the tour in support of the Arriving Somewhere DVD that ran from September 13 to November 29 of 2006. People attending the concerts could hear 50 minutes of brand new music during the first half of the shows.[12] The only not premiered song was "Way Out of Here" due it wasn't written at the moment. "Cheating The Polygraph" (later included in the Nil Recurring EP) was performed instead.

[edit] Interview disc

There is a German exclusive promo disc distributed by Roadrunner Records to radio stations, containing no music but Steven Wilson answering various questions during an interview on February 26, 2007, although the actual questions put to Steven are not included on the disc it was distributed with a transcript of both the questions (in German and English) and the answers.[13]

[edit] Tour of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree performing at Norwich, UK, in 12/07/2007.
Porcupine Tree performing at Norwich, UK, in 12/07/2007.

In April 18, 2007, two days after the European release of the album, the band embarked on an extensive tour that lasted until the end of the year, with a short break during August and September, resuming in October, which led them to many major festivals such as the twins Hurricane Festival and Southside Festival in Germany, the Download Festival at Donnington Park, the Voodoo Music Experience of New Orleans, and the Ilosaarirock Festival in Finland (their first show ever in this country). Support acts included Pure Reason Revolution,[14] Amplifier[15] and Absynthe Minded[16] in Europe, and 3 for the US.[17] The second leg started in October in North America. Head>>Fake (New York City only)[18] and 3 (US and Canada)[19][20] were the supporting bands during October; this stretch of the tour included their first performance ever in Mexico at the Teatro Metropolitan of Mexico City.[21] Alternative rock band Anathema joined them on tour as from November for the European gigs[22] that lasted until December (except for Finland were Hidria Spacefolk opened).[23] Along 2007, they played 92 dates in total.

The tour has continued in April, 2008, with their first appearance ever in Australia, where they played three consecutive dates in April 25, 26 and 27 in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane respectively. Also already announced are performances at Dutch Pinkpop Festival, the Rocksound Festival of Switzerland, the Austrian Nova Rock Festival, the Hellfest Summer Open Air in France and Finnish Ruisrock. Shortly after they will play in Russia for the first time, in July 6 in Moscow. Thereafter in October the band will start a brief European tour during which a second official DVD will be shot, it will include their first performance ever in Portugal and will be the final leg of the Fear of a Blank Planet. Oceansize will open for the UK shows.

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical Reception

Critical reception to the album was mostly positive, regarded as "a dramatic, wide-screen, expertly executed, even genuinely thrilling rock record worthy of an audience way beyond nu-prog's regular constituency" by Q Magazine.[24] David Fricke from Rolling Stone perceives that Porcupine Tree has evolved into "an aggressively modern merger of Rush’s arena art rock, U.K. prog classicism -especially Pink Floyd’s eulogies to madness and King Crimson’s angular majesty- and the post-grunge vengeance of Tool."[25] Sound and Vision praised that "Porcupine Tree is at the height of its powers"[26] and voted it #3 on the "Top 10 CDs of 2007".[27] Decibel lauded: "Porcupine Tree prove they can play with the best of ’em".[28] The Phoenix newspaper stated "Fear of a Blank Planet is not only their most vintage-sounding album, it’s also their best."[29] Jim DeRogatis at the Chicago Sun-Times raved that "Anyone who hopes rock will aspire to something more needs to add [this] new concept effort to their list of must-owns ... easily as strong as any of the band's previous eight releases, and the most timely" while the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot declared that "the music is stellar in its serpentine mood-shifting."[30] Revolver magazine adverts: "England’s prog princes return at their most limber and conceptually relevant."[31] PopMatters placed it at #5 of "The Best Metal Albums of 2007".[32] Dan LeRoy from Alternative Press described it as "as heavy as P-Tree have ever been" but "wistfully, sprawlingly melodic as well-sometimes in the same tune" and concluded that "if Wilson's vision of today's kids as overmedicated, overstimulated robots seems like a blatant appeal to the over-30 crowd, it's still worth setting the Xbox aside to listen".[33] Reason magazine chose it as one of the "Best Albums of 2007" though they were more severe than other critics about the lyrical content saying that "Lyrically, it's ridiculous" and "If your grandma was theming a prog rock album, it'd come out something like this".[34]

[edit] Rankings and sales

With Fear of a Blank Planet, the band broke the selling mark established by Deadwing, reaching for the first time the Top 100 of the Billboard 200, debuting at #59, the European Top 100 Albums at #21,[35] and charting the Top 40 in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Poland. It debuted in the Top 10 of Amazon.com's top sellers, and was the #3 seller on Buy.com, and #2 at Newbury Comics. The special edition limited to 10,000 copies was sold out worldwide the same day of its release.[36] The album also ranked very well in many poll-based sites such as Rate Your Music, eventually reaching the #3 of the "Top Albums of 2007",[37] or Prog Archives, where it reached #1 of "Top Prog Albums of 2007".[38] The album received an average rating of 82% on MetaCritic, based on reviews from nine different magazines and websites.[24]

[edit] Awards and nominations

Fear of a Blank Planet won the prestigious "Album of the Year" award for the 2007 Classic Rock magazine awards.[39] This is the second time the band has won this award, the first time was in 2005 with Deadwing.[40]

On December 12, 2007, Fear of a Blank Planet was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Surround Sound Album" category.[41]

[edit] Concept

The concept of the album was heavily influenced by Bret Easton Ellis' novel Lunar Park.[42] The novel is told from the perspective of a father, who bears the name of the novel's author himself, whereas the album is mostly from his son's perspective, a ten-year-old kid named Robby.[43] Many of the lyrics for Fear of a Blank Planet are lifted directly from the novel, particularly "My Ashes", which is an homage to the last chapter, in which the ashes of Bret's father are scattered and cover the memories of his life.

The lyrics deal with two typical neurobehavioural developmental disorders affecting teenagers in the 21st Century: bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder, and also with other common behaviour tendencies on youth like escapism through prescription drugs, social alienation caused by technology, and the feeling of vacuity product of information overload in the mass media. In an interview with Revolver magazine, Wilson described the main character of the story as:

"...this kind of terminally bored kid, anywhere between 10 and 15 years old, who spends all his daylight hours in his bedroom with the curtains closed, playing on his PlayStation, listening to his iPod, texting his friends on his cell phone, looking at hardcore pornography on the Internet, downloading music, films, news, violence... He's also on prescription drugs. Parents these days seem to deal with their kids' problems not by sitting down and talking to them but by sending them to the doctor and getting them prescription drugs - which is kind of tragic, really."[44]

[edit] Structure

While his predecessor, Deadwing, consisted of nine separate tracks which lyrics related a story, without any thematic continuity present in the music, the songs on Fear of a Blank Planet seem to have a connection not just between the lyrics but also musically, since every one flows into the next one, building, altogether, a single fifty-minute piece of music.[45] Wilson said the idea was to make an album that could be gone through at one listen, in opposition to some bands' tendency to make very long records, often including filler tracks, making difficult to keep the listener concentrated.[44] He described Fear of a Blank Planet as an approach to the '70s records, whose moderate length prevented the listener from losing focus on the concept:

"It was very much conceived in the way bands used to conceive of records in the '70s, where you've got two sides of vinyl, and you can lay down a piece of music which is around the 50-minute mark, which plays in a continuous way, and deals with the same subject matter, and tried to kind of immerse you in a world for that time. That's always been the Porcupine Tree way, but we've definitely taken it to the next level."[46]

The album has six songs each one of between five and seven minutes length, with an eighteen-minute centerpiece.

[edit] Track listing

Audio samples of 'Fear of a Blank Planet'

Music and lyrics by Steven Wilson except where noted.

  1. "Fear of a Blank Planet" – 7:28
  2. "My Ashes" (Music: Wilson/Barbieri) – 5:07
  3. "Anesthetize" – 17:42
  4. "Sentimental" – 5:26
  5. "Way Out of Here" (Music: Barbieri/Edwin/Harrison/Wilson) – 7:37
  6. "Sleep Together" – 7:28

[edit] Special edition

In addition to the regular issue, a special two-disc edition was released, containing both Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes plus a forty-page booklet. This limited edition of 10,000 copies was sold-out the same day of its release.[36][47]

Disc one - Stereo Mix (CD)
  1. Fear of a Blank Planet – 7:28
  2. My Ashes – 5:07
  3. Anesthetize – 17:42
  4. Sentimental – 5:26
  5. Way Out of Here – 7:37
  6. Sleep Together – 7:28
Disc Two - 5.1 surround sound mix / high resolution stereo mix (DVD-V)
  1. Fear of a Blank Planet – 7:28
  2. My Ashes – 5:07
  3. Anesthetize – 17:42
  4. Sentimental – 5:26
  5. Way Out of Here – 7:37
  6. Sleep Together – 7:28

[edit] Vinyl edition

The 2LP vinyl edition was released through Tonefloat Records, there is a standard edition on 180g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve and a special edition (limited to 1000 copies) on black/blue marbled vinyl packaged in a numbered slipcase with a 12x12" 16-page booklet. The vinyl edition has a slightly different track listing,[48] and includes the Nil Recurring EP. There is also a special pink vinyl edition limited to 500 copies, released in May 1, 2008, only provided to Dutch record stores, commemorative of the band's upcoming appearance at the Pinkpop Festival.[49]

Side one
  1. "Fear of a Blank Planet" – 7:28
  2. "My Ashes" – 5:07
  3. "Cheating the Polygraph" – 7:10
Side two
  1. "Anesthetize" – 17:46
Side three
  1. "Sentimental" – 5:26
  2. "Way Out of Here" – 7:37
  3. "Sleep Together" – 7:28
Side four
  1. "Nil Recurring" – 6:08
  2. "Normal" – 7:09
  3. "What Happens Now?" – 8:23

[edit] DVD-A edition

A Grammy nominated special limited edition audiophile 5.1 Surround Sound version released on the band’s own Transmission label, featuring the 5.1 mix of the album in advanced resolution/MLP lossless 5.1 surround, DTS 5.1 digital surround sound, and 24 bit stereo, as well as all 4 tracks from the Nil Recurring mini album in surround sound. The disc also includes three video works directed by Lasse Hoile: a special Blank Planet Introduction short film, the uncensored version of the "Fear of a Blank Planet" promo video, and the full length 17 minute film for "Anesthetize" as seen during the band’s live shows.

Audio content
  1. Fear of a Blank Planet – 7:28
  2. My Ashes – 5:07
  3. Anesthetize – 17:46
  4. Sentimental – 5:26
  5. Way Out of Here – 7:37
  6. Sleep Together – 7:28
  7. Nil Recurring (5.1 only) – 6:08
  8. Normal (5.1 only) – 7:09
  9. Cheating the Polygraph (5.1 only) – 7:10
  10. What Happens Now? (5.1 only) – 8:23
Video material
  1. Blank Planet - short film – 5:03
  2. Fear Of A Blank Planet - uncensored promo video – 4:56
  3. Anesthetize - live film – 17:13

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Special guests

[edit] Chart positions

Chart Peak
Position
Billboard 200[50] #59
Billboard Top Internet Albums[51] #3
United Kingdom[52] #31
Germany[53] #21
Italy #34
Netherlands[54] #13
Norway[55] #34
Finland[56] #16
Poland #11
France[57] #70
Sweden[58] #38
Switzerland[59] #41

[edit] Release history

Region Date Label Format
Europe April 16, 2007 Roadrunner Records CD, CD+DVD-V
United States April 24, 2007 Atlantic Records CD, CD+DVD-V
Japan April 25, 2007 WHD CD, CD+DVD-V
Canada May 1, 2007 WEA CD
Worldwide September 25, 2007 Tonefloat Records Double LP
Worldwide October 3, 2007 Transmission DVD-A

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