{"id":3489,"date":"2025-01-21T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2025-01-22T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:19:58","slug":"steven-wilson-the-overview-14mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/steven-wilson-the-overview-14mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Steven Wilson \u2013 <em>The Overview<\/em>, out 14 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Steven Wilson - The Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/steven-wilson-the-overview\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Steven Wilson - The Overview\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2503\/StevenWilson.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Wilson - The Overview\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steven Wilson<\/strong>\u2019s eighth studio album, <strong><em>The Overview<\/em><\/strong>, is his most audacious to date, inspired by the \u201coverview effect\u201d experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space. The two track, forty-two-minute album sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases. The two wildly ambitious tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Wilson\u2019s 21st-century progressive music updates the classic \u2018prog\u2019 musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, which brings the genre right into the beating heart of the current musical landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The album also features a set of lyrics by XTC\u2019s Andy Partridge that help drive the story in \u2018Objects Outlive Us\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Overview<\/em> is instantly recognisable as Steven Wilson and will stand alone as an utterly unique release for 2025. Headphones and a wide-open mind are recommended.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>mint-green vinyl<\/strong>, exclusive to independent shops.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Steven Wilson - The Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/steven-wilson-the-overview\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Wilson\u2019s eighth studio album, The Overview, is his most audacious to date, inspired by the \u201coverview effect\u201d experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space. The two track, forty-two-minute album sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,194,78],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer","tag-steven-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}