Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space

Buckle up and prepare to be taken on the ride of a lifetime. Steven Wilson is back with The Overview, an album that even he admits is prog. Comprising two tracks, the conceptual suite includes lyrics from XTC’s Andy Partridge and visuals that are out of this world. Prog visits the musician at home to get the lowdown.

Dave Everley

“People who like more progressive, more conceptual rock music, they’re much more open-minded than they perhaps they even might give themselves credit for sometimes.” There’s a phenomenon that affects astronauts when they travel into space and look back at the Earth. It’s called The Overview Effect. “It’s reportedly a cognitive shift that occurs that’s to do with perspective and how they feel about their lives,” says Steven Wilson, a man who hasn’t been into space yet but has thought about The Overview Effect a lot over the last couple of years. “A mental perspective – quite literally having an overview of where we fit in time and space, or some inkling of it, and understanding in a split second of just how insignificant we are.” The Overview Effect affects different…

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