“We were called the ‘Pink Floyd of the 90s.’ But there’s always been more in my music”: The story of Porcupine Tree’s Stupid Dream, the cult classic that set up prog for the 21st century

Porcupine Tree posing for a photograph in 1999.

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.

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