Title and Concept
Porcupine Tree's frontman, Steven Wilson, explained the meaning of the EP's title and commented about its relationship with the concept of Fear of a Blank Planet:
“I just thought it was an interesting idea I had. I had this instrumental, and I didn’t have a title, so I called it Nil Recurring. It’s always quite hard to name instrumentals, because obviously there’s no subject matter to relate it to. I just thought the idea was quite funny. I kind of like absurd titles. I kind of have a history of having these titles that make no sense, like Up the Downstair (1993). I mean Nil Recurring is another paradox like statement. You cannot have the number nil recurring. So it’s just a bit of fun really. And of course, it seemed to fit in with the lyrical concept of some of the other pieces that featured on Fear of a Blank Planet. It was that idea of blankness, of not being there or negativity that helped gave that piece, and the E.P. its title.”
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