Steven Wilson – The Overview (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Steven Wilson – The Overview (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:03 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Rock
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Steven Wilson releases his eighth studio album, ‘The Overview’. Two tracks, 42 minutes, wildly ambitious and brilliantly audacious in equal measure, the album features endlessly engaging conceptual lyrics that move seamlessly between the cosmic and the quotidian, set to genre-defying, ultra melodic music. ‘The Overview’ is accompanied by an album length animated film made by regular Steven Wilson collaborator Miles Skarin (Crystal Spotlight). The album sees Steven return to the genre that made him famous – progressive rock – although his 21st century version hugely updates the classic musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to monumental post rock, a feat that brings it right into the beating heart of the 21st century.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

Tracklist:

1-1. Steven Wilson – Objects Outlive Us (23:19)
1-2. Steven Wilson – The Overview (18:21)
2-1. Steven Wilson – Objects Outlive Us: No Monkey’s Paw (01:59)
2-2. Steven Wilson – Objects Outlive Us: The Buddha of the Modern Age (02:26)
2-3. Steven Wilson – Objects Outlive Us: Objects: Meanwhile (06:31)
2-4. Steven Wilson – Objects Outlive Us: The Cicerones/Ark (03:42)
2-5. Steven Wilson – Objects Outlive Us: Cosmic Sons of Toil (03:00)
2-6. Steven Wilson – The Overview: No Ghost on the Moor/Heat Death of the Universe (06:00)
2-7. Steven Wilson – The Overview: Perspective (04:56)
2-8. Steven Wilson – The Overview: A Beautiful Infinity/Borrowed Atoms (05:19)
2-9. Steven Wilson – The Overview: Infinity Measured in Moments (05:06)
2-10. Steven Wilson – The Overview: Permanence (03:24)

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