℗ 2007 Porcupine Tree Ltd, under exclusive licence to Snapper Music Ltd
| Released | 2007 |
| Duration | 51m 06s |
| Record Label | Kscope |
| Catalogue No. | KSCOPE2210 |
| Genre | Rock (Progressive) |
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1.1
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Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree |
7:30 | |||
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1.2
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My Ashes
Porcupine Tree |
5:09 | |||
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1.3
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Anesthetize
Porcupine Tree |
17:52 | |||
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1.4
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Sentimental
Porcupine Tree |
5:32 | |||
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1.5
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Way out of Here
Porcupine Tree |
7:37 | |||
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1.6
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Sleep Together
Porcupine Tree |
7:26 |
"... an aggressively modern merger of Rush’s arena art rock, U.K. prog classicism —especially Pink Floyd’s eulogies to madness and King Crimson’s angular majesty— and the post-grunge vengeance of Tool."
- Rolling Stone
Fear of a Blank Planet is the ninth studio album by Porcupine Tree. The concept of the album was heavily influenced by Bret Easton Ellis’ novel Lunar Park. The lyrics deal with two typical neurobehavioural developmental disorders affecting teenagers in the 21st century: bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder, and also with other common behaviour tendencies of youth like escapism through prescription drugs, social alienation caused by technology, and a feeling of vacuity—a product of information overload by the mass media.
Steven Wilson described the main character of the story as “…this kind of terminally bored kid, anywhere between 10 and 15 years old, who spends all his daylight hours in his bedroom with the curtains closed, playing on his PlayStation, listening to his iPod, texting his friends on his cell phone, looking at hardcore pornography on the Internet, downloading music, films, news, violence…”.
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Kscope Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.15 -0.20 to -0.10 | -16.61 -18.31 to -15.05 | -13.83 -15.40 to -12.30 | 10 9 to 12 | |
| 1 | Fear of a Blank Planet | -0.10 | -15.05 | -12.3 | 9 |
| 2 | My Ashes | -0.10 | -18.31 | -15.4 | 12 |
| 3 | Anesthetize | -0.10 | -16.10 | -13.6 | 10 |
| 4 | Sentimental | -0.20 | -17.86 | -15.0 | 11 |
| 5 | Way out of Here | -0.20 | -16.68 | -13.6 | 10 |
| 6 | Sleep Together | -0.20 | -15.67 | -13.1 | 10 |