Steven Wilson’s eighth album The Overview is out now via Fiction Records / Virgin Music Group and he’s coming to play it live for us in November. 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 Outlive Us: Objects: Meanwhile from The Overview.
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). Buy the album here. Album out now via Fiction Records / Virgin Music Group
Listen hereFull tracklist for The Overview
1. Objects Outlive Us
2. The Overview
3. Objects Outlive Us: No Monkey’s Paw
4. Objects Outlive Us: The Buddha of the Modern Age
5. Objects Outlive Us: Objects: Meanwhile
6. Objects Outlive Us: The Cicerones/Ark
7. Objects Outlive Us: Cosmic Sons of Toil
8. The Overview: No Ghost on the Moor/Heat Death of the Universe
9. The Overview: Perspective
10. The Overview: A Beautiful Infinity/Borrowed Atoms
11. The Overview: Infinity Measured in Moments
12. The Overview: Permanence
STEVEN WILSON THE OVERVIEW AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2025
Wednesday 12 November
Astor Theatre
Perth, WA
Thursday 13 November
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Adelaide, SA
Saturday 15 November
The Forum
Melbourne, VIC
Sunday 16 November
ICC Darling Harbour Theatre
Sydney, NSW
Monday November 17
QPAC Concert Hall
Brisbane QLD
Tickets and Information at teamwrktouring.com