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Steven Wilson releases his eighth studio album, 'The Overview'. 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.

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Barry says: It's a thematically massive concept isn't it, the ol' space. The concept album also isn't something Wilson is averse to (If you haven't heard Porupine Tree's 'Sky Moves Sideways' or 'Up The Downstair' you need to) but rarely has his work been as overwhelmingly evocative and as beautifully poised as this. The Man's a genius.

TRACK LISTING

1. Objects Outlive Us
2. The Overview