Finally... The Incident is here! (Song here, pics in next post)

Yesterday, the wait finally finished for me. The Incident arrived!

As I said, I bought the limited edition box set. I have pictures of the pretty, which will be on the next post. This one is for the title track - a 55-minute song "cycle" that fucking rocks!

You can listen in two ways:

#1. As a single, full length track

or

#2. Split into individual tracks (parts), as they are presented on the CD.

Repeated listens are recommended. But above all... enjoy the ride!

( Lyrics for The Incident )

Pictures of The Incident box set, as promised

Steven Wilson said this of The Incident:

“There was a sign saying ‘POLICE – INCIDENT’ and everyone was slowing down to rubber neck what had happened,” he recalls. “Afterwards, it struck me that ‘incident’ is a very detached word for something so destructive and traumatic for the people involved. And then I had the sensation that the spirit of someone that had died in the car accident entered into my car and was sitting next to me.

“The irony of such a cold expression for such seismic events appealed to me, and I began to pick out other ‘incidents’ reported in the media and news,” continues Wilson. “I wrote about the evacuation of teenage girls from a religious cult in Texas, a family terrorizing its neighbours, a body found floating in a river by some people on a fishing trip, and more. Each song was written in the first person and tried to humanize the detached media reportage.”

The description fits very well into the art of The Incident.

( Click for pictures! )