75 FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET

Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree fans will likely tell you that 2002’s In Absentia is the band’s best album overall, but the title track of Steven Wilson and co’s biting 2007 record (heavily influenced, among other things, by Bret Easton Ellis’s postmodern ghost story Lunar Park) was their rock/metal song to beat. Stinging, smart and heavy as hell, it packed a layered, evocative punch against the growing media overload experienced by 21st-century teenagers. PG

From: Fear Of A Blank Planet, 2007