THE SOUND OF NO ONE LISTENING (2020 REMASTER)

Delerium have fairly regularly reissued and repackaged the material Porcupine Tree put out on the label - spanning the period from On the Sunday of Life to Signify and the Coma Divine live album - but then again, that's only logical; Porcupine Tree are probably the label's biggest success story, after all. (The situation is comparable to Fire Records' regular repackaging of Pulp's material put out through them.)

Still, the most recent Delerium Years boxed set (there have been several) seems to have been the definitive rerelease, providing not just all the albums from the era (and most of the EPs and other limited releases on top of that), but also yielding this compilation of off-cuts, edits, and other odds and sods from the era. For those who enjoy the space rock sound of early Porcupine Tree, there's plenty here to like, spanning the quirky psychedelic approach of their earliest work and the more serious material of the Signify era. Including two versions of Disappear would seem self-indulgent, but they at least differ enough in approach to justify this.

I wouldn't put it on the level of their best releases of this era - Up the Downstair, The Sky Moves Sideways, Signify, and Coma Divine - but if you love everything else that Porcupine Tree did in this period, you'll probably dig this, and if you're a fan of space rock with updated 1990s production values who hasn't heard Porcupine Tree's work from this era, what are you waiting for?