The all instrumental title track begins the EP and has been explained by Steven Wilson that the title was sort of a joke because the subject matter of an instrumental track can only be NIL. Considering these were all a part of the larger “Blank Planet” recording sessions, it’s no wonder that these four tracks sound very much in the same stylistic approach of the third phase of PORCUPINE TREE which began with the band’s critically acclaimed breakthrough album “In Absentia.” This EP is just shy of 29 minutes of playing time with each track running form the 6 - 8 minute playing time. Having been released five months after the album “Fear of a Blank Planet,” the 4-track EP titled NIL RECURRING was basically the leftover tracks that were written and recorded during those same sessions but for whatever reason were not deemed as viable candidates to be included on that album. It feels almost relaxed - the band enjoying working together after all this time, and offering a new, somewhat jazzier side of their sonic universe. Is it on the level of the best of the original run of Porcupine Tree albums? I don't think so, but it's far from bad. In addition, it's perhaps inevitable that all three musicians have moved on musically in the intervening decade-and-a-bit - and certainly there's traces of the pensive jazz fusion and synth aspects of Wilson's solo work creeping in here and there. Far from it - it turns out that Wilson, Richard Barbieri, and Gavin Harrison had kept in touch all this time and had in fact been gently tinkering with new Porcupine Tree material as far back as 2011.ĭoes it sound like the Porcupine Tree of old? Well, not quite - but that was a band which went through many incarnations, from psychedelia and space rock to Radiohead-esque art rock to borderline prog metal. To all the world, it looked like Steven Wilson had closed the door on Porcupine Tree after The Incident proved to be a somewhat patchy release, and after his solo career kicked into high gear with Grace For Drowning.
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