Lightbulb Sun

by Porcupine Tree

Type: Album
Released: 22 May 2000
Label: Kscope
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 56:17
Community rating: 3.98/5 from 16 ratings

Artists on this release: Colin Edwin, Steven Wilson, The Minerva Quartet, Richard Barbieri, Gavin Harrison

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Lightbulb Sun' balances Porcupine Tree's complex progressive rock tendencies with accessible, highly melodic alternative pop songwriting. Steven Wilson crafts a warm, melancholic, and autumnal atmosphere that deals heavily with themes of loneliness, breakups, and childhood nostalgia.

Genres

Descriptors: breakup, melodic, progressive, expansive, dynamic

Tracklist

Lightbulb Sun (5:31)
How Is Your Life Today? (2:46)
Four Chords That Made A Million (3:36)
Shesmovedon (5:13)
Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled (4:48)
Winding Shot (Summer 1981)
Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
The Rest Will Flow (3:24)
Hatesong (8:26)
Where We Would Be (4:12)
Russia On Ice (13:03)
Feel So Low (5:18)

Credits

Colin Edwin - Member, Fretless Bass, Bass Guitar, Bass, Drum Machine, Bağlama, Gumbri
Gavin Harrison - Member
Richard Barbieri - Member, Synthesizer, Hammond Organ, Rhodes Piano, Clavinet, Mellotron, Percussion
Steven Wilson - Member, producer, recorded by, written-by, Guitar, Piano, Mellotron, Producer, Recording, Vocal, Hammered Dulcimer, Lead Vocals Vocal, Harp Sampler, Banjo, Percussion
Porcupine Tree - arranged by, Arranger
Dave Gregory - arranged by [strings], producer [strings], Strings Arranger, Producer
Chris Blair - mastered by
John Foxx - photography by, photography
Luigi Colasanti Antonelli - photography by, photography
John Waterhouse - recorded by [strings], Strings Recording
The Minerva Quartet - strings
Mascot Creative - design
Chris Maitland - Drums (drum Set), Drums (drum Set) Percussion, Background Vocals Vocal, Tom-tom
Lisa Betteridge - Violin
Emmeline Brewer - Cello
Stuart Gordon - Violin, Viola
Sarah Heins - Viola
Katy Latham - Violin
Nick Parry - Cello