STEVEN WILSON GOES FULL BLOWN PROG FOR HIS EIGHTH SOLO LP

The Overview examines the profound phenomenon experienced by astronauts looking down on Earth across two epic and breathtaking tracks.

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Steven Wilson will release his eighth solo album The Overview via Fiction Records on March 21 – and it marks his long-awaited return to prog territory. The follow-up to 2023’s The Harmony Codex is a 42-minute concept album that features just two songs: the 23-minute Objects Outlive Us and the 18-and-a-half minute title track. It hinges around the idea of what Wilson calls “perspective” and stems from a conversation the musician had with Alexander Milas, founder of the Space Rocks organisation, who introduced the musician to something called‘The Overview Effect’. “It’s a recognised phenomenon that astronauts get when they look out into space,” says Wilson. “A cognitive shift reportedly occurs in their mental perspective – the understanding, in a split second, of just how insignificant we are. The album all…

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