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STAR RATING Heading In August 2017, Steven Wilson told Jess Thompson of Discogs that Tangerine Dream’s 1972 album Zeit is, ‘The original and greatest ambient record, years before the notion of ambient music existed. It’s music without melody, rhythm or structure, but listening to it is like filling the room with the most beautiful and …
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★★★★★ Wilson launches his Headphone Dust online store with a stunning live recording made on The Overview Tour in Madrid Impossible Tightrope: Live in Madrid is Steven Wilson’s fourth solo live album, following Catalogue / Preserve / Amass (2012), Get All You Deserve (2012), and Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (2018). …
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***** Soft Machine return with a new line-up, and their thirteenth studio album, sixty years since the band was formed. The number thirteen is unlucky for some, but the latest version of Soft Machine obviously don't think so. In some cultures, the number is considered a symbol of change, regeneration or growth. Thirteen is the …
The Cover of The Overview by Steven Wilson, designed by Hajo Müller His Eighth Solo Album The Overview is Steven Wilson’s eighth solo album, released on 14 March 2025. It charted at number three in the UK, the fourth of Wilson’s albums (as a solo artist or with his band Porcupine Tree) in a row to …
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Steven Wilson. Image credit: Kevin Westerberg His Eighth Solo Album The Overview is Steven Wilson’s eighth solo album, released on 14 March 2025. It charted at number three in the UK, the fourth of Wilson’s albums (as a solo artist or with his band Porcupine Tree) in a row to reach the UK top five. On …
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Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt's 2012 'weird beautiful' collaboration re-released in a Dolby Atmos surround sound mix ***** The cover of Storm Corrosion painted by Swiss artist Hans Arnold. Steven Wilson said in his book Limited Edition of One that the painting is 'a riotously twisted bacchanalian scene that somehow evinced the dream-fever mood of …
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