UK’s biggest underground artist Steven Wilson has announced details of his expansive, brilliant fifth album To The Bone, to be released on August 18th. The album release is followed by a European tour in 2018 that will bring Steven to Amsterdam for a show at AFAS Live on March 7th, 2018.
Formerly the founder of rock band Porcupine Tree, Steven released his first record under his own name in 2008. He has been resolutely independent throughout a three-decade career that’s made him the most successful British artist you’ve never heard of.
Fusing driving futurist rock and spectral electronics to elegiac hyper-space ambience and dizzying squalling guitars, To The Bone is Steven Wilson’s hat-tip to the hugely ambitious progressive pop records of his youth (think Peter Gabriel’s So, Talk Talk’s Colour of Spring, Tear’s for Fears Seeds of Love).
Lyrically, the album’s eleven tracks veer from the paranoid chaos of the post-truth era and the creeping self-loathing of the technology age to steely fly-on-the-wall observations of the everyday lives of religious fundamentalists with a welcome shot or two of wide-eyed escapism. Sonically and melodically stunning, To The Bone is a high definition snapshot of the disconcerting times we live in.
The follow up to 2015’s Hand. Cannot. Erase. (“a smart, soulful and immersive work of art” – the Guardian 5*), To The Bone is Steven Wilson’s first album since signing with Caroline International (Iggy Pop, Underworld, Thurston Moore, Glass Animals).
Tracklisting To The Bone
- To The Bone
- Nowhere Now
- Pariah
- The Same Asylum As Before
- Refuge
- Permanating
- Blank Tapes
- People Who Eat Darkness
- Song Of I
- Detonation
- Song Of Unborn
LIVEDATUM 07/03/2018 AFAS Live, Amsterdam