Description
Release Date Friday 14th March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
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.
TRACKLIST
CD
1. OBJECTS OUTLIVE US
2. THE OVERVIEW
Vinyl
Side 1
OBJECTS OUTLIVE US (23.17)
● No Monkey’s Paw
● The Buddha Of The Modern Age
● Objects: Meanwhile
● The Cicerones
● Ark
● Cosmic Sons Of Toil
● No Ghost On The Moor
● Heat Death Of The Universe
Side 2
THE OVERVIEW
● Perspective
● A Beautiful Infinity I
● Borrowed Atoms
● A Beautiful Infinity II
● Infinity Measured In Moments
● Permanence
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