Steven Wilson announces next solo release will be another concept album

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Steven Wilson has announced that his next solo album, which he is looking to release in 2023, will be another concept album. In a new year message to fans on his website, Wilson discussed his the upcoming Porcupine Tree album Closure/Continuation which will be released next year, as well as an array of other projects he’s been working on, which include a new book and a box set looking at the influence of progressive music on the 80s.

“I hope to release in mid-2023, a big conceptual thing partly based on a short story that appears in my book,” he says of the follow-up to 2021’s The Future Bites. “A long way to go yet, but I’m excited about it and where the music is taking me, something completely different again with collaborators both old and new. I remain committed to the idea of building a body of work where every album has its own personality and unique place in the catalogue.”

Wilson has also been working on a new book, Limited Edition Of One, which will be released in March through Little, Brown & Company.

“As well as containing some autobiographical material, it also has a lot on my ideas about music and the way things have changed in my time as a professional, lists, photos from my personal archives, conversation transcripts and even some fictional elements,” Wilson says. “As there have already been a few books written about me and/or Porcupine Tree in recent years, I’ve chosen to focus on the stuff that people really don’t know about me. As you can probably guess, there will also be a special limited deluxe version. This will feature a second volume of supplementary material and photos, plus a 70 minute CD with “audio illustrations” of some of the things I talk about in the book, including mercifully brief extracts of my school bands, and early unreleased demos by No-Man and Porcupine Tree, among others. Although much of its musical merits might be questionable, my hope is to put you there “in the room” when I’m talking about my early musical endeavours.”

Finally, he reveals he’s also curating a new box set, “which will focus on how the progressive spirit of the 70’s continued to inspire independent and alternative music throughout the 80’s, something which has allowed me to revisit a lot of my favourite post-punk and art pop/rock music from the decade when I was a music-crazed teenager. Everything from Wire and Joy Division to Cardiacs and Cocteau Twins will feature. More news on that soon.”

 

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    STEVEN WILSON Index - The Art Of Steven Wilson's Music (Scarce 2015 UK limited deluxe edition 240 Page hardback book by Lasse Hoile & Carl Glover, featuring 340 photographs with 178 previously unseen images, illustrating the visual side of hisalbums covering the period from Porcupine Tree’s 2002 album In Absentia right up to my most recent (and probably most visually ambitious) album Hand. Cannot. Erase., as well as his other projects no-man, Blackfield, IEM, Bass Communion, and Continuum. This edition was released to coincide with two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on 28/29th September, cloth bound in the RAH colours of Red cover with gold embossed text. To help protect this example, a past owner has laminated the cover, otherwise remains in a fantastic condition, and includes a postcard which has been signed by the photographer & authors Lasse Hoile & Carl Glover in a blue or black pen, still in the orignal card mailer)***Limited to only 800 copies***

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    STEVEN WILSON The Future Bites (2021 UK/EU Limited Edition 9-track LP, pressed on 180gram Red Vinyl, guest starring Richard Barbieri, Elton John, Fyfe Dangerfield & more. Comes housed in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve complete with the printed inner, 16-page booklet & spot laquered picture slipcase. Near Mint CAROL021LPC)

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    PORCUPINE TREE The Incident (2009 Dutch exclusive 18-track 2-LP set pressed on 180gram vinyl, the tenth studio album from the celebrated post-progressive group - the 14 songs spread over sides 1-3 form a 55 minute song cycle [called 'The Incident'], while the final four stand-alone compositions were developed out of band writing sessions in December 2008, prior to the February recording date for the song cycle; housed in a matt gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics insides and with individual printed inners. The sleeves inner spine shows a little tearing at the bottom but the sleeve otherwise reveals minimal wear. The vinyl shows only a couple of cosmetic scuffs but very little evidence of play TF82)

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    PORCUPINE TREE Fear Of A Blank Planet (2016 Limited edition uk 6-track 2-LP set pressed on 180gram BLUE vinyl, featuring guest spots from Alex Lifeson [Rush] and Robert Fripp. Originally released in 2007, this edition has been remastered by Steven Wilson. Housed in a matt gatefold hype stickered picture sleeve with black inners. Although not sealed, this copy remains in Near Mint condition KSCOPE867)

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