Steven Wilson – The Overview [CD]

Fiction

£13.26

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: SW8CD
Barcode: 0602475245629
Release Date: 14 March 2025
Genre: Rock

Jewel case with 12 page booklet

Steven Wilson releases his eighth studio album, The Overview, on Fiction Records on 14th March 2025. The two track, forty-two-minute album is his most audacious to date, inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space.

The Overview sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases. The two wildly ambitious tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Wilson’s 21st-century progressive music updates the classic ‘prog’ musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, which brings the genre right into the beating heart of the current musical landscape.

The album also features a set of lyrics by XTC’s Andy Partridge that help drive the story in “Objects Outlive Us”.

The Overview is instantly recognisable as Steven Wilson and will stand alone as an utterly unique release for 2025. Headphones and a wide-open mind are recommended.

TRACK
Disc 1
1. OBJECTS OUTLIVE US
2. THE OVERVIEW

Disc 2
1. No Monkey’s Paw
2. The Buddha Of The Modern Age
3. Objects: Meanwhile
4. The Cicerones
5. Ark
6. Cosmic Sons Of Toil
7. No Ghost On The Moor
8. Heat Death Of The Universe
9. Perspective
10. A Beautiful Infinity I
11. Borrowed Atoms
12. A Beautiful Infinity II
13. Infinity Measured In Moments
14. Permanence