When Porcupine Tree began work on 2005 album Deadwing, they did so under something of a cloud. They were working with Lava Records, who’d cut the budget in response to the relative failure of previous release In Absentia.
“I think there was an implicit understanding that when we signed to Lava – we would be expected to come up with songs that they could take to radio,” Steven Wilson says. “They didn’t have to ask; I understood that.”
