The Overview by Steven Wilson

Released on 14/3/25 by Virgin Music UK LAS (S&D)
Main artists: Steven Wilson
Genre: Rock

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The Overview is a widescreen view of space and humanity's place in it. Written, produced, and played by producer/remixer/Porcupine Tree founder Steven Wilson, it's organized as two suites, and has also been imagined as a film by director Miles Skarin. While there are ominous overtones scattered amongst these ten tracks, Wilson's objective is finding perspective and understanding, and somehow constructing a musical portrait of the vastness of space. "The Buddha of the Modern Age," the second part of first suite, "Objects Outlife Us," is a full-bodied, modern choral piece that searches for meaning. "To find some kind of perspective/ Amongst all the invective/ Glory in pathways of dopamine," Wilson chants. The prog rock sweep of "Objects Meanwhile" morphs halfway through into a bass-led power rock section that's reminiscent of Wilson's work with Porcupine Tree. It has the added attraction of lyrics by XTC's Andy Partridge: "And meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order/ While we bicker on with our fences and borders/ But best not think about that/ It's better to live without facts." The massed force of voice, keyboards, and drums drive the terse verses of "The Cicerones_Ark." He revels in a heavy guitar workout on the instrumental, "Cosmic Sons of Toil," and challenges his own vocal prowess in the slow, reflective "No Ghost on the Moor_Heat Death." The four-part "The Overview" opens with "Perspective," which features found sounds and a burbling futuristic keyboard rumble. The ambitious conclusion takes a turn in a pop direction in the gentle "Beautiful Infinity_Borrowed Atoms." Wilson recites the names of stars and nebulae in "Infinity Measured in Moments" before evoking the indescribable vastness in the closing "Permanence." In this musical odyssey, space is indeed the place. © Robert Baird/Qobuz

The Overview

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Objects Outlive Us

00:23:19

Andy Partridge, Lyricist - ADAM HOLZMAN, Piano, Synthesizer, Mellotron, Rhodes , HammondOrgan - Steven Wilson, Producer, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer, BassGuitar, ElectricGuitar, Keyboard, AcousticBassGuitar, PumpOrgan - Theo Travis, Flute, Saxophone - Randy McStine, Guitar, Vocalist, BackgroundVocalist, SoundEffects - Russell Holzman, DrumKit - Willow Beggs, Vocalist

℗ 2024 Steven Wilson Productions Ltd.

The Overview

00:18:21

ADAM HOLZMAN, Piano, Synthesizer, Rhodes , BackgroundVocalist - Steven Wilson, Producer, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer, AcousticGuitar, BassGuitar, ElectricGuitar, Keyboard, DrumProgrammer, PumpOrgan - Theo Travis, Saxophone - Craig Blundell, DrumKit - Randy McStine, Guitar, Ukulele, Vocalist, BackgroundVocalist, Keyboard, SoundEffects - Rotem Wilson, Vocalist

℗ 2024 Steven Wilson Productions Ltd.

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Objects Outlive Us: No Monkey’s Paw

00:01:59

ADAM HOLZMAN, Piano, Synthesizer, Mellotron, Rhodes , HammondOrgan - Steven Wilson, Producer, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer, BassGuitar, ElectricGuitar, Keyboard, AcousticBassGuitar, PumpOrgan - Theo Travis, Flute, Saxophone - Randy McStine, Guitar, Vocalist, BackgroundVocalist, SoundEffects - Russell Holzman, DrumKit - Willow Beggs, Vocalist