Nil Recurring
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| EP by Porcupine Tree | ||||
| Released | 17 September 2007 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, progressive metal | |||
| Length | 28:44 | |||
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| Producer | Porcupine Tree | |||
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| Aquarian Weekly | (A+) |
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| Metal Storm | (8.5/10) |
| PopMatters | (7/10) |
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Nil Recurring (also Transmission 5.1) is an EP by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, released on 17 September 2007 through the band's online store. The standard version of the mini-album is composed of four tracks written during the Fear of a Blank Planet recording sessions and was completed over the summer of 2007. The third track on the EP - "Cheating the Polygraph" - was originally slated as the fifth track for Fear of a Blank Planet, but was later dropped from the final track list and replaced by Way Out of Here.
The EP's title, which stems from the opening instrumental track on the EP, was actually derived from an unreleased demo written during the Fear of a Blank Planet recording sessions, called "Always Recurring". Although the band never formally released the song, lyrical and melodic elements of the track were reused in the closing piece of the EP, "What Happens Now?".
Nil Recurring entered the UK Top 30 Independent Label Albums at #8 and is the #2 EP of 2007 on Rate Your Music.
The band met in London in July 2006 to work on new material to follow up Deadwing. At the time, "My Ashes" and "Normal" were already written by Wilson; he later reworked the latter song, transforming it into "Sentimental". The band sessions produced "Fear of a Blank Planet", "Anesthetize", "Cheating the Polygraph", and "Sleep Together", along with material that would not fit the album they were forming. Thus, when the band toured later in the year to polish songwriting and preview the upcoming record, it was played in the work-in-progress running order: the same as the final album sequence, but with "Cheating the Polygraph" in the fifth track placement. Once the tour ended, the band decided none of the extra songs nor "Cheating the Polygraph" were up to the standards of the record, as they weren't properly developed, and there was a policy not to make the album over fifty minutes long. The band wrote "Way Out of Here" to bridge "Sentimental" and "Sleep Together"; after Fear of a Blank Planet was released, the four remaining tracks were mixed between June and August 2007 to make the Nil Recurring EP.
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