A good deal of ink has already been spilt over Steven Wilson’s new album, To The Bone. In blogs, online magazines and social media forums, a fair amount of alternating hand-wringing and canonization has been going on. Some have voiced despair that Wilson has, in some manner, jumped the shark, and abandoned the trajectory of … Continue reading
Steven Wilson has recently announced the details of his fifth solo album, To The Bone, which is set to be released on August 18, 2017. For this latest album, Wilson has decided that he will be channeling some of the great progressive pop albums of our time. In his words: “My fifth record is in many … Continue reading
A little after Keith Emerson’s tragic passing, I remarked that the twilight years of an artist’s life must be challenging, and that I wish there was some sort of place (like Valinor in Lord of the Rings) where we could send our musicians and poets who have contributed so much to us, so that we … Continue reading
“Even among my catalog, this next song is particularly miserable.” Thus did Steven Wilson introduce ‘Routine’, providing a brief moment of levity before the band played one of the most heartbreaking songs in all of rock/pop music. It was the first of three times that tears formed in the corner of my eyes during this … Continue reading
2016 has been an intense year here in the United States and in the rest of the world. We’ve lost Prince, David Bowie, Alan Rickman, and our collective minds. And to make matters worse, we have a presidential election coming up next Tuesday. Election anxiety has been a very real phenomenon this year, and many Americans … Continue reading
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Originally posted on Treblezine, March 12, 2015 Throughout his career, Steven Wilson has often written about unsettling themes. A few songs from Porcupine Tree’s masterful album In Absentia seem to have been written from the perspective of a serial killer (the poppy, energetic “Blackest Eyes” is maybe the most clear example). He’s written about ghosts, … Continue reading
