[prog-rock] (2020) Porcupine Tree – The Delerium Years 1991-1997 [FLAC] [DarkAngie]

(2020) Porcupine Tree – The Delerium Years 1991-1997

Review:
Porcupine Tree release a 13-disc box set bringing together all of the band’s recordings issued by the Delerium label between 1992-97. It’s the first fruits of a new deal struck between the band and their previous label Snapper Records. Snapper Music have held a close relationship with Porcupine Tree since the release of the 1999 album Stupid Dream on their Kscope imprint. The label acquired the band’s early work on the Delerium label in 2006 and later the Warner/Lava years material in 2017.
“Myself and the band are very happy to have all our work united on our Transmission imprint through Snapper Music, a label we’ve had a long and extremely positive relationship with,” says Steven Wilson. “We are discussing many exciting possibilities for the catalogue going forward, plans that will take in definitive special editions of existing albums, but also open the vaults to archive material.”

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Including the 5 full length albums officially released on Delerium in their most recently remastered form:
• On the Sunday of Life…
• Up the Downstair
• The Sky Moves Sideways (2CD)
• Signify
• Coma Divine (2CD)

Plus..
• Voyage 34: The Complete Trip (with the original full-length version of Phase IV)
• The Staircase Infinities mini-album (remastered)
• Metanoia (remastered) (studio improvisations recorded 1995-96)

and 2 releases originally created for subscribers to the PT information service Transmission (both remastered for this set):
• Transmission IV (all 40 minutes of an unedited Moonloop)
• Insignificance (a selection of Signify demos, including tracks not recorded for the final album)

Finally a newly compiled and mastered 9 track disc called The Sound Of No One Listening rounds up stray single and compilation tracks, including 2 demo versions of the song Disappear (which were previously only available on a bonus 7 inch with the first vinyl edition of Coma Divine).


Tracklist:
On The Sunday of Life…

01. Music For the Head 02.40
02. Jupiter Island 06.08
03. Third Eye Surfer 02.48
04. On the Sunday of Life 02.07
05. The Nostalgia Factory 07.29
06. Space Transmission 02.59
07. Message From a Self Destructing Turnip 0.27
08. Radioactive Toy 10.00
09. Nine Cats 03.54
10. Hymn 01.16
11. Footprints 05.51
12. Linton Samuel Dawson 03.04
13. And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun 04.03
14. Queen Quotes Crowley 03.50
15. No Luck With Rabbits 0.47
16. Begonia Seduction Scene 02.18
17. This Long Silence 04.58
18. It Will Rain for a Million Years 10.53
Up The Downstair

01 What You are Listening To… 0.57
02 Synesthesia 5.13
03 Monuments Burn Into Moments 0.26
04 Always Never 7.13
05 Up the Downstair 10.13
06 Not Beautiful Anymore 3.26
07 Siren 0.53
08 Small Fish 2.49
09 Burning Sky 11.42
10 Fadeaway 6.19
Staircase Infinities

01. Cloud Zero 04.40
02. The Joke’s On You 04.19
03. Navigator 04.49
04. Phantoms 03.17
05. Rainy Taxi 06.49
06. Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape 09.30
The Sky Moves Sideways


CD1
01. The Sky Moves Sideways (Phase One) 18:40
02. Dislocated Day 05:24
03. The Moon Touches Your Shoulder 05:40
04. Prepare Yourself 02:00
05. The Sky Moves Sideways (Phase Two) 16:56

CD2
01. The Sky Moves Sideways (alternate version) 34.37
02. Stars Die 05.07
03. Moonloop (improvisation) 16.18
04. Moonloop (coda) 04.52
Signify

01. Bornlivedie 01:46
02. Signify 03:26
03. Sleep Of No Dreaming 05:24
04. Pagan 01:36
05. Waiting (Phase One) 04:24
06. Waiting (Phase Two) 06:21
07. Sever 05:30
08. Idiot Prayer 07:37
09. Every Home Is Wired 05:08
10. Intermediate Jesus 07:34
11. “Light Mass Prayers” 04:29
12. Dark Matter 08:52
Insignificance

01. Wake as Gun I 03:29
02. Hallogallo / Signify 07:04
03. Waiting (demo version) 06:56
04. Smiling Not Smiling 03:49
05. Wake as Gun II 02:06
06. Neural Rust 05:53
07. Dark Origins 06:54
08. Sever Tomorrow 06:04
09. Nine Cats (acoustic version) 04:08
Coma Divine Live In Rome


CD1
01. Bornlivedieintro 01:25
02. Signify 05:24
03. Waiting (Phase One) 04:32
04. Waiting (Phase Two) 05:24
05. The Sky Moves Sideways 12:41
06. Dislocated Day 06:36
07. Sleep Of No Dreaming 05:19
08. Moonloop 11:40

CD2
01. Up The Downstair 07:40
02. The Moon Touches
Your Shoulder 05:05
03. Always Never 05:41
04. IS…NOT 06:09
05. Radioactive Toy 13:30
06. Not Beautiful Anymore 09:39
Transmission IV

01. Moonloop (Unedited Improvisation) 40:04
Voyage 34

01. Voyage 34 Phase I 12.57
02. Voyage 34 Phase II 17.30
03. Voyage 34 Phase III - Astralasia Dreamstate 19.29
04. Voyage 34 Phase IV – A New Civilisation 19.47
Metanoia

01. Mesmer I 08:33
02. Mesmer II 06:05
03. Mesmer III / Coma Divine 13:18
04. Door to the River 04:32
05. Metanoia I /
Intermediate Jesus 14:14
06. Insignificance 04:56
07. Metanoia II 10:58
08. Milan 02:27
The Sound of No One Listening

01. Radioactive Toy - short version 04.06
02. Synesthesia - extended version 07.54
03. Men of Wood 03.34
04. The Sound of No One Listening 08.17
05. Colourflow in Mind 03.51
06. Fuse the Sky 04.35
07. Signify II 06.04
08. Disappear - Feb 1997 demo 06.04
09. Disappear - April 1997 demo 06.27
Media Report:
Genre: prog-rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits