Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream album interview [Video]

Porcupine Tree spent much of the 1990s as standardbearers for the underground British prog scene. But by 1999’s Stupid Dream, they were ready to step up to the big time. In 2018, mainman Steven Wilson looked back on the album prepared prog for the 21st century.

It’s quite interesting to cast one’s mind back to 1999 when Porcupine Tree released Stupid Dream and to draw comparisons to the furore that surrounded the release of Steven Wilson’s most recent album, To The Bone, in 2017. When early reports filtered out onto the web that with To The Bone Wilson was making a sonic shift, all manner of toys were hurled out of the prams of the prog diehards and Wilson devotees, and the tumult hasn’t stopped since. “It’s a pop record” was the oft-heard cry from detractors as Wilson pointed his compass in the direction of the 80s. Not the brash, garish, shoulder-padded 80s pop …