Description
Label Review.
2017 album
Our Overview.
The ever prolific Steven Wilson returns with his fifth solo album, the first under his new deal with Caroline / Universal. How he finds the time to make his own music in amongst all the remixing of classic albums (Jethro Tull / Barclay James Harvest etc.) still never ceases to amaze us. He has had numerous former bands, the most celebrated of which is Porcupine Tree, who released ten albums during the 90s and 00s.
Wilson himself said “My fifth record is in many ways inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth (think Peter Gabriel’s So, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love, Talk Talk’s Colour of Spring and Tears for Fears’ Seeds of Love). Lyrically, the album’s eleven tracks veer from the paranoid chaos of the current era in which truth can apparently be a flexible notion, observations of the everyday lives of refugees, terrorists and religious fundamentalists, and a welcome shot of some of the most joyous wide-eyed escapism I’ve created in my career so far. Something for all the family!”
Wilson’s last album ‘Hand.Cannot.Erase’ earned him his best reviews of his career to date and nearly made the UK Top 10. Maybe his latest album will be his first to crack it!