Signify [Bonus Disc]

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All Music Guide - Ned Raggett
The first proper album by the full band, Signify was the next great step forward for Porcupine Tree, a distinct advancement in how well the foursome could completely rock out as well as find its own narcotic style of ambient exploration. The title track signals intentions clearly after the fragmentary sample-collage start of "Bornlivedie" kicks things off. Based on a storming riff from Steven Wilson, the Colin Edwin/Chris Maitland team provide a crisp, driving beat, while Richard Barbieri throws in some intriguingly aggressive keyboard work, nervy and unsettling, to offset the calmer parts he also adds to fill things out. Everyone gets to show a little bit of individual ...
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All Music Guide - Ned Raggett
The first proper album by the full band, Signify was the next great step forward for Porcupine Tree, a distinct advancement in how well the foursome could completely rock out as well as find its own narcotic style of ambient exploration. The title track signals intentions clearly after the fragmentary sample-collage start of "Bornlivedie" kicks things off. Based on a storming riff from Steven Wilson, the Colin Edwin/Chris Maitland team provide a crisp, driving beat, while Richard Barbieri throws in some intriguingly aggressive keyboard work, nervy and unsettling, to offset the calmer parts he also adds to fill things out. Everyone gets to show a little bit of individual flair as the album progresses. Edwin punctuates the epic surge of "Sleep of No Dreaming" with some plucked double bass as well as electric, while Maitland himself takes over on wordless vocals and full composition for "Light Mass Prayers," a minimal, entrancing piece. One thing that hasn't noticeably changed much is Wilson's general songwriting and ear for arrangements -- good, but there's little in the way of distinct change in style, leaving it to the performance of the band as a whole to provide the album's own unique stamp. For all that Wilson may once again be singing obliquely on the pressures and nature of end-of-century life, he still does so in an engagingly left-of-center way. Consider the portrait of an incipient Internet/cyberpunk world in "Every Home Is Wired" or the snap-or-not? dilemma of "Darkmatter," which closes the album on a subtly tense note, besides being the best song Peter Gabriel-era Genesis never wrote. The often gripping instrumental pieces, which are as much a band trademark as anything else, appear throughout, including the combination drift and charge of "Idiot Prayer," littered with intriguingly curious samples, and the amusingly titled, hellfire and brimstone preacher-punctuated "Intermediate Jesus." [The album's 2003 reissue included a disc of bonus demos.]
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 4/21/2009
  • Label: Kscope
  • UPC: 802644813127
  • Catalog Number: 131
  • Sales rank: 31,590

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Bornlivedie (1:46)
  2. 2 Signify (3:26)
  3. 3 The Sleep of No Dreaming (5:24)
  4. 4 Pagan (1:38)
  5. 5 Waiting Phase One (4:24)
  6. 6 Waiting Phase Two (6:16)
  7. 7 Sever (5:30)
  8. 8 Idiot Prayer (7:37)
  9. 9 Every Home Is Wired (5:08)
  10. 10 Intermediate Jesus (7:29)
  11. 11 "Light Mass Prayers" (4:28)
  12. 12 Dark Matter (8:52)
Disc 2
  1. 1 Wake as Gun I (3:29)
  2. 2 Hallogallo (3:37)
  3. 3 Signify (3:27)
  4. 4 Waiting (6:56)
  5. 5 Smiling Not Smiling (3:49)
  6. 6 Wake as Gun II (2:06)
  7. 7 Neural Rust (5:53)
  8. 8 Dark Origins (6:54)
  9. 9 Sever Tomorrow (6:04)
  10. 10 Nine Cats (4:08)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Porcupine Tree Primary Artist
Richard Barbieri Synthesizer, Hammond Organ, Prophet Synthesizer, electronics, Prophet 5, Group Member
Chris Maitland Cymbals, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals, Voices, Drum Loop, Vocal Harmony, Group Member
Steven Wilson Organ, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Piano, Chimes, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Sampling, Mellotron, Music Box, Group Member
Colin Edwin Bass, Electric Bass, Double Bass, Group Member
Terumi Voices
Technical Credits
Richard Barbieri Composer, Sequencers
Chris Maitland Composer
Steven Wilson Composer, Producer, drum programming, Remastering
John Blackford Artwork
Colin Edwin Composer
Carl Glover Graphic Design
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