From Porcupine Tree's Website:

Nil Recurring EP

08-06-2007

Porcupine Tree release a new EP in September called "Nil Recurring". It will feature 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. More news on availability of the EP soon.

Edited by darkmatter - August 06 2007 at 13:32

This should be very interesting, I'm looking forward to it.

Just under 30 minutes of music?! Sweet, now I can add that to the Fear of a Blank Planet album and make it one disc! Perfect!

Hopefully I can buy the actual disc itself, unless they decide to do the Store-download route. Either way, this WILL be mine!
Thanks for the news-post!

-Marc.

Looking forward to it..

God damn apostrophes! bootlegs*

Awesome. I'm glad he's not suckering me into having to rebuy FoaBP for a few bonus tracks.

Wonderful news!  First we are treated with the incredible FOABP album and now he is going to give us more.

This is very ironic as just this morning I was listening to FOABP on the way to work and thought to myself that the only reason I didn't like FOABP as much as Deadwing & In Absentia was because it was too short....

Tonefloat vinyl release for porcupine tree's fear of a blank planet:

tonefloat has a name for high quality vinyl releases, with much heralded vinyl releases of steven wilson's unreleased electronic music, a series of no-man records, the epic bass communion album ghosts on magnetic tape, and most recently, a audiophile 12inch release by former pink floyd bass player roger waters. porcupine tree will now be releasing the vinyl edition of fear of a blank planet on tonefloat. the 180 grams double vinyl edition will include the album as well the nil recurring ep, and will be packed in a state of the art heavy gatefold picture sleeve with innerbags, designed by carl glover. a special limited edition of only 1,000 copies worldwide will be pressed on blue/black marbled 180 grams double vinyl, and will be housed in numbered picture slipcase, that also contains a glossy full-colour 16-page 12x12inch picture booklet. the limited edition will only be available directly through tonefloat and porcupine tree. both editions of fear of a blank planet will be released on 3 october, to coincide with porcupine tree's autumn tour, and are available to pre-order now from our store. copies will also be available for pre-orders from the pt store later on.


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artist
porcupine tree
title
fear of a blank planet

format
2lp
date
october 2007
editions
limited edition of 1,000 copies on 180 grams marbled vinyl in gatefold picture sleeve, housed in numbered picture slipcase with a glossy full-colour 16-page 12x12inch booklet
regular edition on 180 grams black vinyl in gatefold picture sleeve

tracks
fear of a blank planet (7.28)
my ashes (5.07)
cheating the polygraph (7.10)
anesthetize (17.46)
sentimental (5.26)
way out of here (7.37)
sleep together (7.28)
nil recurring (6.08)
normal (7.09)
what happens now? (8.23)

info
steven wilson – vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards
richard barbieri – keyboards and synthesizers
colin edwin – bass guitars
gavin harrison – drums, percussion, tapped guitar on "nil recurring"

guests:
alex lifeson – guitar solo on "anesthetize"
robert fripp – soundscapes on "way out of here", lead guitar on "nil recurring"
john wesley – backing vocals
ben coleman – electric violin on "what happens now?"

produced and arranged by porcupine tree
mixed and mastered by steven wilson

music and lyrics by steven wilson, except:
my ashes – music by steven wilson and richard barbieri
way out of here, nil recurring and what happens now? – music by porcupine tree
cheating the polygraph - music by gavin harrison and steven wilson

published by hands off it's mine publishing, administered by bmi

written in london and tel aviv between january-july 2006
recorded between october-december 2006
normal and what happens now? recorded july 2007

I've already placed a preorder for the FOABP Limited Edition, although I'm likely to also buy Nil Recurring in addition to this to ensure the record stays in good condition.