71-613: Grace for Drowning is the second solo studio album by Steven Wilson , producer, songwriter, and frontman of Porcupine Tree . It was released by Kscope on 26 September 2011 as a double album . The album received a nomination at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Surround Sound Album . After the release of his first solo album, Insurgentes , Steven Wilson spent time on a number of his other projects. These include Porcupine Tree's album The Incident in 2009, Blackfield 's third album Welcome to My DNA , on 28 March 2011, and an ongoing project with Mikael Åkerfeldt (the leader of
142-535: A DVD, filmed live in Mexico City on the Grace for Drowning tour, would be released on 24 September 2012. Touring band members included drummer Marco Minnemann , bassist and backing vocalist Nick Beggs , guitarist Aziz Ibrahim (First European leg only), John Wesley (First US leg only), or Niko Tsonev (Second leg), keyboardist Adam Holzman, and Theo Travis on flute, saxes and clarinet. Drummer/keyboardist Gary Husband
213-479: A conceptual work entitled The Harmony Codex that is planned for release in mid-2023. Wilson also revealed an autobiography, Limited Edition of One , which was published by Little, Brown and Company on 7 April 2022. In his 2023 new year's message, Wilson stated that The Harmony Codex is to be released on the Virgin Music label and will be 65 minutes long. The album was released on 29 September 2023. Wilson
284-509: A cover version and an original song - or, in one case, a Wilson arrangement of a traditional song. It featured songs by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette , Swedish pop group ABBA , English rock band the Cure , Scottish songwriter Momus , American musician Prince , and Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan . Separate from the Cover Versions series, Wilson has also contributed a cover version of
355-418: A diverse range of genres including pop , psychedelia , progressive rock and electronic , among others, shifting his musical direction through his albums. His concerts incorporate quadraphonic sound and elaborate visuals. He has worked with artists such as Elton John , Guns N' Roses , XTC , Opeth , Pendulum , Yes , King Crimson , Fish , Marillion , Black Sabbath , and Anathema , and has built
426-722: A dub-loop style anticipating trip hop - won the Single of the Week award in Melody Maker and gained the band a recording contract with the high-profile independent label One Little Indian (at the time, famous for the Shamen and Björk ). Their debut One Little Indian single, "Days in the Trees", won the same Single of the Week award the following year. The single also briefly charted and, although sales were not outstanding, Wilson had now gained credibility in
497-461: A free download for the radio edit of "Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye". A video clip for "Remainder the Black Dog" was finally released on 31 August, through Guitar World magazine's website. Upon completion of the album, Wilson said: "'Insurgentes' was an important step for me into something new. This record takes that as a starting point, but it’s more experimental and more eclectic. For me
568-503: A full-on pastiche of psychedelic rock (inspired by the similar Dukes of Stratosphear project by XTC ) carried out for the mutual entertainment of Wilson and his childhood friend Malcolm Stocks. Over the next three years, the projects would evolve in parallel. Of his two efforts, No Man Is An Island (Except The Isle of Man) was the first to release a commercial single (1989's "The Girl From Missouri", on Plastic Head Records), while Porcupine Tree built an increasing underground reputation via
639-467: A live album was announced via his official Instagram account under the name Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall , and it was released on 2 November 2018. On 26 May 2019, Wilson confirmed on his Instagram account that the writing and recording process on his sixth studio album was underway. It was expected to be released in 2020. The album was produced by David Kosten, who
710-416: A minisite for the new album revealing the album's name and album art photographed by his longtime collaborator Lasse Hoile . Additionally, a free download of the track "Remainder the Black Dog" was also added. Sound and Vision magazine's website premiered the video of "Track One" on 10 August 2011. Not long after, Yahoo! Music debuted the music video for "Index". On 16 August, WNYC 's website premiered
781-400: A mixed review to the album and compared it to Wilson's other projects, Porcupine Tree and Bass Communion , saying " Grace for Drowning has a particular conception in terms of its emotional journey from sadness through anger to acceptance, but it is also just another in a lengthy discography of albums by Wilson under various names in relatively similar styles". Brice Ezell of PopMatters gave
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#1733085044113852-507: A reputation for his work remixing classic pop and rock records into new stereo , 5.1 and Dolby Atmos versions. Wilson is currently working on his forthcoming eighth studio album, The Overview, scheduled for release in early 2025. Born in Kingston upon Thames , London, Wilson was raised from age six in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire , where he discovered his interest in music around
923-490: A series of CD singles under his own name. Having established himself as a producer, Wilson was invited to produce other artists, notably the Norwegian artist Anja Garbarek and Swedish progressive-metal band Opeth . Though he claims to enjoy production more than anything else, with the demands of his own projects, he has mostly restricted himself to mixing for other artists in the last few years. Wilson has written reviews for
994-412: A solo artist. In 2017, The Daily Telegraph described him as "a resolutely independent artist" and "probably the most successful British artist you've never heard of". Wilson is a self-taught composer, producer, audio engineer, guitar and keyboard player, and plays other instruments as needed, including bass guitar , autoharp , hammered dulcimer and flute . His influences and work have encompassed
1065-505: A teaser clip of himself and Ninet Tayeb recording a new song titled "Pariah". In April 2017, Wilson announced that he had switched record labels for the release, with the album to be released on Caroline International . Wilson also mentioned that harmonica player Mark Feltham is going to be playing on the next record and released a clip of him contributing to a song titled "To the Bone". Slovak musician David Kollar featured on three songs of
1136-486: A thirty-minute long piece that could be described as a mixture of ambient , trance and psychedelia . This was done partly as an attempt to produce the longest single yet released, which it was until it was later exceeded by The Orb's "Blue Room." With non-existent radio play "Voyage 34" still managed to enter the NME indie chart for six weeks and became an underground chill-out classic. The second full-length album, Up
1207-515: A very positive review to the album, scoring it 8 out of 10. He wrote that "[Wilson] may remain a divisive musical personality, but Grace for Drowning is such a fine listen that even the most adamantly opposed listener has to at least give him style points, both for the artistic presentation of the album and the music within". All tracks are written by Steven Wilson Credits adapted from the official website Wilson and longtime collaborator Lasse Hoile announced in late August 2012 that
1278-536: A video for "King Ghost", the third single to be taken from The Future Bites . This was directed by Wilson's longtime video collaborator Jess Cope. On 24 November 2020, Wilson released "12 Things I Forgot", the fourth single from The Future Bites . The release of "12 Things I Forgot" was accompanied with an announcement that a completely unique, one of one limited edition of The Future Bites would be sold on 27 November 2020 for £10,000, with all proceeds going to Music Venue Trust to help save UK music venues affected by
1349-562: Is a kind of homage to that spirit. There’s everything from [Ennio] Morricone-esque film themes to choral music to piano ballads to a 23 minute progressive jazz –inspired piece. I've actually used a few jazz musicians this time, which is something I picked up from my work remixing the King Crimson records" The special edition of the album was released on Blu-ray video disc with the music playing in 5.1 surround sound . There are accompanying visuals and videos for each track. The track Raider II
1420-534: Is also featured on a Fovea Hex EP Allure (Part 3 of the "Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent" trilogy of EP's) on bass guitar. This EP was released in April 2007 through Die-Stadt Musik. Wilson has also worked with a range of other artists, including OSI , JBK , Orphaned Land , Paatos , Theo Travis , Yoko Ono , Fish , Cipher and Anja Garbarek , by performing songwriting duties as well as performing musically. Wilson
1491-531: Is also known as Faultline , making the upcoming album Wilson's second to not be produced by him alone. On 21 October 2019, Wilson announced 'The Future Bites Tour', his largest and most ambitious show to date. The Future Bites Tour was planned to be performed in large arenas in the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Poland in September 2020. On 24 December 2019, Wilson announced that his as yet untitled sixth studio album
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#17330850441131562-405: Is based on the murders of the "BTK killer", Dennis Rader . Reception for the album was generally favourable. Ben Bland of Stereoboard wrote positively of the album, stating "For a work so defiantly widescreen in its intentions as this, it is truly remarkable that there is nothing that could, or rather should, be accused of being filler or being over the top." William Ruhlmann from AllMusic gave
1633-509: Is currently working on his forthcoming eighth studio album called The Overview , tentatively scheduled for release in early 2025. When asked when the new album might be released, Wilson stated, Beginning of 2025. I work very quickly and I'm still excited by making music. This is just two 20-minute long tracks. So it's a very conceptual, and I think that'll be finished and ready to come out early next year. On 24 June 2024, Wilson announced The Overview Tour with dates scheduled for May–June 2025 in
1704-460: Is featured on the Pendulum album Immersion , with his vocals featuring on "The Fountain". He made a guest appearance on Dream Theater 's 2007 album, Systematic Chaos on the song " Repentance ", as one of several musical guests recorded apologizing to important people in their lives for wrongdoings in the past. Wilson did an interview with German musician and composer Klaus Schulze . Schulze
1775-562: Is the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Porcupine Tree , as well as being a member of several other bands, including Blackfield , Storm Corrosion and No-Man . He is also a solo artist, having released seven solo albums since his solo debut Insurgentes in 2008. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Wilson has made music prolifically and earned critical acclaim. His honours include six nominations for Grammy Awards : twice with Porcupine Tree, once with his collaborative band Storm Corrosion and three times as
1846-662: The NME indie chart for six weeks. No-Man also toured England with a six-piece band including three ex-members of the art-pop band Japan – Mick Karn , Steve Jansen and (most significantly) keyboardist Richard Barbieri . 1993 saw Wilson consolidating his initial success with albums from both Porcupine Tree ( Up the Downstair ) and No-Man ( Loveblows And Lovecries – A Confession ). Porcupine Tree, meanwhile, toured frequently and passed through various overt phases of different musical stylings (including psychedelia, progressive rock, modern guitar rock and heavy metal) while retaining
1917-452: The COVID-19 pandemic . This edition of the album sold immediately after going on sale. On 22 March 2021, Wilson announced that due to uncertainty surrounding live performances amidst the COVID-19 pandemic , The Future Bites Tour (scheduled to begin in September 2021) would be cancelled. Wilson stated that he will now concentrate on upcoming music projects, including his seventh studio album,
1988-559: The Cardiacs song " Stoneage Dinosaurs ". The song was featured on Leader of the Starry Skies: A Tribute to Tim Smith, Songbook 1 , which is a fundraising compilation album released in December 2010 to benefit the hospitalised Cardiacs leader Tim Smith , whom Wilson has cited as a major inspiration spiritually, if not necessarily in style. The complete collection of the cover version songs
2059-650: The Jethro Tull and King Crimson back catalogues, as well as Marillion 's 1985 album Misplaced Childhood . The Anathema album We're Here Because We're Here was mixed by Wilson and he is thanked in the album liner notes, and he mixed two songs on their subsequent album Distant Satellites . He also did the remix for In the Land of Grey and Pink by Canterbury scene band Caravan . The first three new editions were issued in October 2009, with more emerging in batches over
2130-407: The 60s and 70s music that my parents were listening to. And I began to discover this wonderful era, what you'd call the great album era, from 1967 to 1977, from Sgt Pepper through to punk . One of Wilson's earliest musical projects was the psychedelic duo Altamont (featuring a 15-year-old Wilson working with synth/electronics player Simon Vockings). Their one and only cassette album, Prayer for
2201-452: The Big Chair and The Seeds of Love , Van Morrison 's Moondance , Sister Sledge 's We Are Family , Nile Rodgers & Chic 's first five studio albums, Ultravox 's Vienna , Suede 's self-titled debut album , and Roxy Music 's self-titled debut album . Between 2003 and 2010, Wilson released a series of six two-track CD singles under his own name. Each single featured
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2272-456: The Downstair (though Wilson considers it the first 'proper' PT album since it was made as such and not simply compiled), was released in 1993 and had a very good reception, praised by Melody Maker as "a psychedelic masterpiece... one of the albums of the year". This was the first album to include ex- Japan member, keyboardist Richard Barbieri and Australian -born bassist Colin Edwin . About
2343-540: The Mexican edition of the Rolling Stone magazine. They are all translated into Spanish. Two reviews have been published so far: one for Radiohead 's In Rainbows and another for Murcof 's 2007 work, Cosmos . He has also contributed to US magazine Electronic Musician . Wilson wrote the foreword for 2010 book Mean Deviation . Wilson produced and contributed backing vocals , guitar and keyboards for Opeth on
2414-475: The New Wave/AOR band Pride of Passion as keyboard player, replacing former Marillion keyboard player Brian Jelliman (another former Marillion member, Diz Minnitt, also played in the band). Pride of Passion would later change their name to Blazing Apostles and alter their lineup and approach, finally coming to an end in 1987. In 1986, Wilson launched the two projects that would make his name. The first of these
2485-608: The Soul , featured lyrics by English psychedelic scenester Alan Duffy, whose work Wilson would later use on the first two Porcupine Tree albums. Around the same time that Wilson was part of Altamont, he was also in a progressive rock band called Karma, which played live around Hertfordshire and recorded two cassette albums, The Joke's on You (1983) and The Last Man To Laugh (1985). These contained early versions of "Small Fish", "Nine Cats" and "The Joke's on You", which were subsequently resurrected as Porcupine Tree songs. Wilson went on to join
2556-546: The UK and Europe. It is his first solo tour since the To the Bone Tour in 2018–2019. Porcupine Tree started out as a duo of Wilson and his school friend Malcolm Stocks (with Wilson providing the majority of the instrumentation and Stocks contributing mostly ideas, additional vocals and experimental guitar sounds). Wilson began experimenting by recording music in his home until he had the hunch it could become someway marketable. The material
2627-506: The age of eight. According to Wilson, his life was changed one Christmas when his parents bought presents for each other in the form of LPs . His father and mother received Pink Floyd 's The Dark Side of the Moon and Donna Summer 's Love to Love You Baby , respectively. It was Wilson's affinity for these albums that helped craft his guitar and songwriting abilities. He said, "In retrospect I can see how they are almost entirely responsible for
2698-409: The album as #2 on their top prog albums of the last 25 years. Wilson's fourth solo album, Hand. Cannot. Erase. , was released on 27 February 2015. It was inspired by a documentary about Joyce Carol Vincent , a young British woman who lay dead in her apartment for nearly three years before being discovered. Hand. Cannot. Erase. received critical acclaim from music critics. The Guardian rated
2769-407: The album five stars and called it "a smart, soulful and immersive work of art". Eclipsed magazine described the album as "one more shining jewel in the discography of Steven Wilson" and Metal Hammer awarded Hand. Cannot. Erase. 6/7 and described it as "another masterpiece". US website FDRMX rated the album 4.8/5 and stated " Hand. Cannot. Erase. grabs your full attention from the beginning to
2840-496: The album, "Personal Shopper" (featuring a spoken word appearance by Elton John ), was released the same day. On 22 April 2020, Wilson announced that the release date of The Future Bites would be pushed back to 29 January 2021, due to logistical/creative challenges facing the music industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic . In May 2020, Wilson launched "The Album Years", an audio-only podcast with his partner in No-Man , Tim Bowness . It
2911-453: The albums Blackwater Park , Deliverance , and Damnation , also contributing lyrics for one song ( Death Whispered a Lullaby ) in Damnation . In addition to this, he has collaborated on many projects with Belgian experimental musician Dirk Serries of Vidna Obmana and Fear Falls Burning , most notably on their collaboration project Continuum which has so far produced two albums. Wilson
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2982-618: The band Opeth ) named Storm Corrosion . "Cut Ribbon" was a song written in 2001 for a collaboration with Åkerfeldt, but it didn't fit the style of what Wilson was doing at the time. Wilson eventually released the song on his Soundcloud account (with Gavin Harrison on drums), having completed the recording during the Grace For Drowning sessions. However, among all these projects, in 2010, he announced that he had started working on his second solo album as well. In early June 2011, Wilson launched
3053-718: The coming years. Wilson is responsible for the 5.1 and new stereo mixes of the 1992 XTC album Nonsuch in 2013, as well as the Gentle Giant albums The Power and the Glory and Octopus in 2014 and 2015, respectively. In 2018, he released Yes : The Steven Wilson Remixes , consisting of the albums The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close to the Edge (1972), the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), and Relayer (1974). Wilson's other remixes include The Who 's Who's Next , Tears for Fears ' Songs from
3124-402: The core of Wilson's sonic imagination and songwriting. By the mid-2000s Porcupine Tree had become a well known rock band with albums on major labels such as Atlantic and Roadrunner. During the late 1990s, Wilson's love of experimental, drone and ambient music led to a series of new projects, notably Bass Communion and Incredible Expanding Mindfuck (also known as IEM). He also began to release
3195-421: The departure of most of the members of his solo band from the prior two albums, Wilson handled most of the guitar on the album, with Craig Blundell and Jeremy Stacey both contributing drums. Ninet Tayeb was featured on additional vocals and had a bigger role than she did on Hand. Cannot. Erase. Andy Partridge of XTC revealed that he co-wrote two songs for the album. On 5 January 2017, Wilson posted
3266-467: The direction that my music has taken ever since." His interest in Pink Floyd led him towards experimental / psychedelic conceptual progressive rock (as exemplified by Porcupine Tree and Blackfield ), and Donna Summer's trance -inflected grooves inspired the initial musical approach of No-Man (Wilson's long-running collaboration with fellow musician and vocalist Tim Bowness ). As a child, Wilson
3337-535: The end of the year, Porcupine Tree became a full band for the first time with the inclusion of Chris Maitland on drums . Wilson continued exploring the ambient and trance grounds and issued The Sky Moves Sideways . It also entered the NME , Melody Maker , and Music Week charts and many fans started hailing them as the Pink Floyd of the nineties, something Wilson would reject: "I can't help that. It's true that during
3408-761: The film based on the recording of the album was premiered at the CPH:DOX international film festival in Copenhagen in November 2009. The film was also screened at film festivals in Canada, Germany, Mexico, Sweden and United States. The film is described as part documentary, part surreal road movie . Hoile also directed a video for the song " Harmony Korine " from the album. The video was a homage to European art house films , and has been nominated for "Best Cinematography Award" and "Best Music Video Award" at Camerimage . A remix mini album
3479-400: The golden period for music was the late sixties and early seventies, when the album became the primary means of artistic expression, when musicians liberated themselves from the 3 minute pop song format, and started to draw on jazz and classical music especially, combining it with the spirit of psychedelia to create "journeys in sound" I guess you could call them. So without being retro, my album
3550-442: The mid-1990s he was the vocalist for Danish death metal band Panzerchrist . Hoile started working as an editor and producing short films in 1993. Five years later in 1998, he took up photography as a hobby. Since then, he has worked on documentaries, commercials, and short films. Hoile directed videos and created a number of album sleeves for Porcupine Tree following the release of In Absentia in 2002. Later in 2005, he directed
3621-523: The music video for the album's single, " Time Flies ", which was the featured "Video of the Week" on iTunes USA (October 19–25, 2009). Hoile took part in the recording, editing, and direction of some of Blackfield 's live shows, including Blackfield Live in NY . He has worked with Israeli singer Aviv Geffen on both live visuals and music videos such as Black and White shot at Abbey Road Studios in London , during
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#17330850441133692-471: The new record. On 9 May 2017, the album was officially unveiled as To the Bone and released on 18 August 2017. Wilson embarked on major tours of the UK, Europe and North America in 2018 and 2019 to promote the album. For the tour, Alex Hutchings was introduced to replace Dave Kilminster as the guitarist of the live band, as the latter would go on to work in Roger Waters ' band. On 12 September 2018,
3763-588: The period of The Sky Moves Sideways , I had done a little too much of it in the sense of satisfying, in a way, the fans of Pink Floyd who were listening to us because that group doesn't make albums anymore. Moreover, I regret it." Lasse Hoile Lasse Hoile (born 1973 in Aarhus , Denmark ) is a Danish artist, photographer and filmmaker. He has collaborated with musician Steven Wilson and his projects Porcupine Tree and Blackfield . He has also designed live visuals for US progressive metal band Dream Theater . In
3834-556: The record industry (as well as enough finance to fit out his home studio with the equipment he would need to advance his music). By this time, Wilson had also released the official Porcupine Tree debut album, On the Sunday of Life ... (which compiled the best material from the underground tapes). No-Man's debut full-length release – a compilation of EP tracks called Lovesighs – An Entertainment – followed in 1992, as did Porcupine Tree's infamous LSD-themed maxi-single " Voyage 34 " which made
3905-414: The recording of Porcupine Tree's first live performance DVD Arriving Somewhere... , which took place at Park West , Chicago . He directed Porcupine Tree's music video for the song " Fear of a Blank Planet " and has also worked on cover art for Steven Wilson 's solo work. Hoile designed the cover art for Porcupine Tree's studio album The Incident , released in September 2009. He composed and directed
3976-469: The release of a series of cassette-only releases via The Freak Emporium (the mail-order wing of British psychedelic label Delerium Records ). By 1990, No Man Is An Island (Except The Isle of Man) had fully evolved into No-Man and was a voice/violin/multi-instrument trio which had incorporated dance beats into its art-pop sound. The second No-Man single – a crooned cover of the Donovan song "Colours" arranged in
4047-582: The tour from October–November 2013 covered Australia and Europe, and included a sold-out show at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The song "The Raven That Refused to Sing" was featured in the trailer for the 2014 film Pompeii . The album finished top of several critics and readers polls, including UK Prog magazine and German magazine Eclipsed . The album was voted album of the year at the 2013 Progressive Music Awards. On 13 July 2015 The Prog Report ranked
4118-655: The touring band for Grace for Drowning was released on 25 February 2013. Alan Parsons engineered the sessions in Los Angeles. The album reached the top 30 in the UK, and number 3 in the German album charts. In October 2012, Wilson announced the first leg of the supporting tour, consisting of 18 shows across Europe and 17 shows across North America between March–May 2013. For these shows, Chad Wackerman (best known for his work with Frank Zappa ) replaced Marco Minnemann on drums due to conflicting schedules. The second leg of
4189-770: The very final note, and that's the sign of a great album". The supporting tour spanned from March to June 2015 and consisted of 31 shows in Europe and a total of 34 shows in North and South America. In September, two special shows took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Due to the Aristocrats ' tour, for the American shows Guthrie Govan and Marco Minnemann were replaced by Dave Kilminster and Craig Blundell , respectively. On 12 December 2016, Wilson began recording his fifth solo studio album with engineer Paul Stacey in London. With
4260-406: Was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!". When Wilson signed to Delerium label, he selected what he considered the best tracks from these early tapes. All those songs were mastered and made up Porcupine Tree's first official studio album, On the Sunday of Life ... . Quickly after, Wilson would release the single " Voyage 34 ",
4331-527: Was an electronic engineer , built him his first multi-track tape machine and a vocoder so he could begin experimenting with the possibilities of studio recording. Wilson said his taste in music diverged from his peers in the 1980s: I grew up in the 80s, and it was a pretty bad decade for music. There were some interesting things developing, but everyone I knew wanted to be in Level 42 , Simple Minds or U2 . I wasn't interested in any of that, so I found solace in
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#17330850441134402-592: Was an important figure of the Krautrock movement. This interview is featured as bonus material in Schulze's Live DVD, Rheingold . Wilson has become known for his 5.1 surround sound mixes, with the 2007 Porcupine Tree album Fear of a Blank Planet nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Mix For Surround Sound" category. It was also voted #3 album of the year by Sound And Vision . Wilson has worked on several other surround sound projects, which have included remixing
4473-501: Was close to completion and promised further news in early 2020. On 5 March 2020, Wilson began a teaser campaign across his online channels, centering on modern themes of consumerism , product branding and manipulative social media. A few days later, artwork for "Personal Shopper" was unveiled with a release date of 12 March 2020 at 9am GMT. On 12 March 2020, Wilson announced that his sixth solo album The Future Bites would be released on 12 June 2020. The first single to be taken from
4544-482: Was forced to learn the guitar, but he did not enjoy it; his parents eventually stopped paying for lessons. When he was eleven, he found a nylon string classical guitar from his attic and started to experiment with it; in his own words, "scraping microphones across the strings, feeding the resulting sound into overloaded reel to reel tape recorders and producing a primitive form of multi-track recording by bouncing between two cassette machines". A year later, his father, who
4615-400: Was initially called "No Man Is An Island (Except The Isle of Man)", although it would later be renamed " No-Man ." This began life as a solo Wilson instrumental project blending progressive rock with synth pop, subsequently moving towards art-pop when singer/lyricist Tim Bowness joined the project the following year. The second project was " Porcupine Tree ", which was originally intended to be
4686-519: Was originally announced on keys, but pulled out for medical reasons. Ibrahim was unable to tour in the US due to visa problems. "Luminol", from the then-forthcoming album The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) was introduced by Wilson in January 2012 and added to the set list for the second leg of the tour. Steven Wilson Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician. He
4757-458: Was released as an album titled Cover Version in 2014. In November 2008, Wilson released his first official solo album, Insurgentes , recorded between January–August 2008. The album was first released as two limited edition versions, both with hardback book featuring the images of longtime collaborator Danish photographer Lasse Hoile . A standard retail version was released on 9 March 2009. Lasse Hoile's full-length feature version of
4828-837: Was released in June 2009, featuring remixes of material from Insurgentes by David A. Sitek , Dälek , Engineers , Pat Mastelotto and Fear Falls Burning . Wilson's second solo album, Grace for Drowning , was released in September 2011 in CD, vinyl and Blu-ray formats. It is a double album, with the individual parts named Deform to Form a Star and Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye . Wilson also announced his first solo tour in Europe and North America to promote his solo albums. The tour took place in October and November 2011 and contained songs from both Insurgentes and Grace for Drowning . A live video performance recorded in Mexico titled Get All You Deserve
4899-477: Was released on 25 September 2012. On 16 December 2011, Wilson announced new European tour dates for the second leg of his Grace for Drowning tour, running in April and May 2012. South American dates were later added and announced on 21 February 2012. He also won the "Guiding Light" title at the Progressive Music Awards in 2012. Wilson's third solo studio album, recorded with most of the members of
4970-638: Was subsequently compiled into three demo tapes ( Tarquin's Seaweed Farm , Love, Death & Mussolini and The Nostalgia Factory ). For the first tape, he even wrote an inlay introduction to an obscure (imaginary) band called "The Porcupine Tree", suggesting the band met in the early '70s at a rock festival, and they had been in and out of prison many times. The booklet also contained information about band's obscure members like Sir Tarquin Underspoon and Timothy Tadpole-Jones, and crew members like Linton Samuel Dawson (if put into initials forming LSD ). Wilson: "It
5041-468: Was very successful upon release, charting highly all around the world on Apple Podcasts. Starting in March 2024 new video episodes of the podcast were recorded and released. On 22 September 2020, Wilson relaunched The Future Bites with a revised album tracklist and the release of a new single, "Eminent Sleaze", along with the release of a video produced by Crystal Spotlight. On 29 October 2020, Wilson released
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