Can you love an album you’ve never heard? I suppose it’s possible if your favourite artist puts out a new album, you loved the last one and they have a history of not disappointing you. But what if you’ve never heard of them? I’m not sure how I stumbled across Exit North, probably through that […]
As the release of Steven Wilson’s new album To The Bone becomes imminent, the Prog world holds its breath. The man that has perhaps done the most for reinstating post Progressive Rock credibility in the 21st century, looks like he may be flirting with….Pop! Agggh! This is to Prog fans what Dylan going electric was […]
As I leave Stockholm today for Berlin, I leave you with another track from the upcoming Steven Wilson album To The Bone. So far the reaction to these new songs has been mixed. I leave it to Steven Wilson to do the talking and present his case as to why he has chosen this direction […]
Steven Wilson releases a new album, To The Bone, on 18th August. Pariah is the first available track, a lighter more accessible sound and a duet with Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb. This isn’t Ninet’s first appearance on a Steven Wilson album. She appears on Routine and Ancestral from Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015). She also appears on […]
In 2015 Steven Wilson released his fourth solo album, Hand. Cannot. Erase., leaving Porcupine Tree behind and relegating that band to a future side project. It makes me weep for ex-Japan keyboard player Richard Barbieri, bassist Colin Edwin and drummer Gavin Harrison as Wilson made the decision to move away from his main band, hire different […]
Steven Wilson is the kind of artist you don’t tell people about – they already know. He’s the kind of artist that you don’t have to explain his music – you are either there with it or you’re not interested. You don’t convince people about his qualities – you see them immediately or you don’t […]