Black 180g gatefold. Mastered at half speed

Steven Wilson releases his eighth studio album, The Overview, on Fiction Records. The two track, forty-two-minute​ album is his most audacious to date, inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space.

The Overview sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases. The two wildly ambitious tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Wilson’s 21st-century progressive music updates the classic ‘prog’ musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, which brings the genre right into the beating heart of the current musical landscape.

Side 1

OBJECTS OUTLIVE US (23.17)

• No Monkey’s Paw
• The Buddha Of The Modern Age
• Objects: Meanwhile
• The Cicerones
• Ark
• Cosmic Sons Of Toil
• No Ghost On The Moor
• Heat Death Of The Universe

Side 2

THE OVERVIEW

• Perspective
• A Beautiful Infinity I
• Borrowed Atoms
• A Beautiful Infinity II
• Infinity Measured In Moments
• Permanence