“Porcupine” by Echo and the Bunnymen

"Porcupine" is the title track of Echo & the Bunnymen's third album, which Korova released on 4 February 1983, and the writing is credited to Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas. The producer credit reads "Kingbird", a disguise for Ian Broudie, who had already produced their second single, "Rescue".

It was a hard-won record. The work was spread across Trident in London, Rockfield in South Wales and Amazon in Liverpool, with six engineers credited here: David Bascombe, Paul Cobbold, Colin Fairley, Steve Prestige, Steve Short and David Woolley. When the label turned down the first version, the band recorded the album again, this time with Shankar supplying strings.

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