STEVEN WILSON: “I Think PORCUPINE TREE Will Definitely Make At Least One More Record”

Porcupine Tree unexpectedly got here again in 2022 with a brand new document Closure/Continuation (plus a dwell album referred to as Closure/Continuation.Stay), and performed a bunch of reveals in assist of the document 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 is a bit 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 a degree the place we do not need to attempt to do something besides be ourselves. We do not need to fear about what individuals count on of us—not that we ever did.

“We’re having fun with the method. I like working with Gavin Harrison and Richard Barbieri. And the plain factor for me now’s 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 method 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 concept of giving up management and maybe not getting my very own method on a regular basis. I am open to not essentially doing issues the best way I’d 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 very least yet another document. It might even be the subsequent challenge, presumably. However that is as a lot as I can say in the mean time.”

He additionally famous that he’d like to do a Porcupine Tree dwell present field set, although which may show troublesome as he is bought a variety of materials to dig by means of.

“I have been speaking about doing a Porcupine Tree dwell field set, as a result of just about each present we performed was recorded. However that may be an enormous job to compile 12-15 reveals that signify every section of the band in the very best gentle. It might 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 could be at a time once I take a step again from making new work. And as you see, that is not occurring proper now.”