STEVEN WILSON

Modern prog’s great visionary throws away the stylistic rule book to deliver an enigmatic, luxurious post-pandemic masterwork.

Polly Glass, Dave Everley

prog.reviews@futurenet.com Buried in the world’s record shops, personal collections and web troves, there are Steven Wilson recordings that no one knows are his. Musical curios, mostly electronic, all released under different names without the expectations that come with being a known artist. Who knows what they sound like, or where they are? There is something of that free spirit in his latest solo album The Harmony Codex, a 65-minute, electro-organic opus that’s maverick in scope and enormous in scale. The most complete, immersive representation of his artistic palate to date. Wilson has never denied his eclectic influences, but there was always a limit on how much he revealed per album. We’ve had post-punk (Insurgentes), pastoral jazzy sounds (Grace For Drowning), a love letter to prog (The Raven That Refused To…

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