I hear a new world

The progfather of his generation ponders the enhanced perspectives of viewing the Earth from space.

Tom Doyle

Steven Wilson The Overview FICTION. CD/DL/LP TWO YEARS ago, Steven Wilson curated an expansive 58-track box set compilation titledIntrigue: Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979-89. A partial reclaiming of the ‘progressive’ term that has in some ways dogged both his solo career and his long tenure as the bandleader of (the now fallow) Porcupine Tree, his selections also served to shine a light on the maverick studio dreamers of that era who’d so inspired him. Alongside widely acknowledged sonic adventurers Kate Bush, PiL, the Associates and The The, he found room for lesser-recognised production pioneers such as Bill Nelson and Rupert Hine who’d tended to operate on the margins while pushing the envelope. If there’s been a sense that Wilson has spent many years trying to dig himself out…

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