Steven Wilson by Kevin Westernberg
The Overview – the dazzlingly audacious new album – out now
UK signing tour this week – all dates and venues listed below
Watch film clip for Objects: Meanwhile here.
Steven Wilson’s eighth album The Overview is out now (14th March 2025 on Fiction Records). Massively ambitious and hugely expansive, Steven’s most audacious release to date was recently launched with a sell out screening of Miles Skarin’s accompanying film at London’s BFI IMAX cinema, before multiple sold out screenings at theatres around the world. Watch the film clip for Objects: Meanwhile from The Overview track Objects Outlive Us here.
The album consists of just two tracks: Objects Outlive Us and The Overview, each inspired by the ‘overview effect’ that astronauts experience viewing the Earth from orbit. Although initially a solo recording, the finished version of The Overview features studio help from regular collaborators Craig Blundell (drums), Adam Holzman (keyboards) and Randy McStine (guitars) alongside a set of lyrics from XTC’s Andy Partridge that help form the story that drives Objects Outlive Us. The album has a resolutely singular sound and vision that pulls pieces from different periods of Wilson’s thirty-plus-year career. There are nods to classic Porcupine Tree records as well as the world-building storytelling of The Raven That Refused To Sing and the forward-thinking electronics of The Future Bites and the spatial audio vision that ran through 2023’s The Harmony Codex. Consistent with Wilson’s reputation as a modern day producer par-excellence the album is also a true audiophile experience, and to this end spatial / Atmos audio versions of The Overview are available physically and digitally. All vinyl versions of The Overview have been specifically mastered at half speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road.
The Overview is currently available on vinyl, CD, Blu-ray, limited edition mint vinyl and digital formats (the deluxe box set format sold out on announcement).
Following the release of The Overview, Steven Wilson will head out for a series of signing events at record shops across the country:
Sat 15th March Rough Trade, 24 Denmark St, London WC2 (5:30pm)
Sun 16th March Fopp, 19 Brown Street, Manchester (12:00pm);
Crash, 35 The Headrow, Leeds (4:00pm)
Mon 17th March Action Records, 46 Church St, Preston (6:00pm)
Tue 18th March Rough Trade, 5 Broad St, Nottingham (12:00pm);
Rough Trade, 3 New Bridewell, Nelson St, Bristol (5:30pm)
Wed 19th March Vinilo, Southampton 43 – 47 Queensway, Southampton (12:00pm);
Resident, 28 Kensington Gardens, Brighton (6:00pm)
Thu 20th March Banquet, 52 Eden St, Kingston upon Thames (6:00pm)
Steven Wilson plays his first UK tour dates in eight years in May. The tour begins at Birmingham Symphony Hall on 9th May and features four nights at the London Palladium. All Steven Wilson live dates are listed here.
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
