“Shallow” by Porcupine Tree

"Shallow" fired the opening shot for Deadwing, Porcupine Tree's eighth studio album, as its lead single in 2005, and it finds the prog band taking dead aim at American rock radio. Steven Wilson wrote, sang, produced and mixed it, playing guitar, piano, keyboards and hammered dulcimer, with Richard Barbieri on keyboards and synths, Colin Edwin on bass and Gavin Harrison on drums; Barbieri and Harrison share additional production credits.

It went out in the US only, strictly for radio, and with no video behind it still reached No. 26 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, the band's best US showing. A European pressing was scrapped at the last minute, after manufacturing had begun. Wilson has since disowned it as a hollow grab for a radio hit, and he hated the early-morning radio rounds that came with it.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.