What does it sound like?:
The last time I reviewed anything for the Afterword was Wilson’s The Harmony Codex and whilst my thoughts on it were overall very positive it’s subsequently gone on to be one of my favourite Steven Wilson albums, second only to Hand. Cannot. Erase. There’s a huge variety of musical influences and landscapes on that album occasionally dipping into the more straightforward stuff from To The Bone or The Future Bites but largely it’s the more left-field music on that album which pulls me to it and it’s one that I’ve returned to regularly over the last 18 months.
The Overview has been heralded as a return to Prog roots for Wilson (or derided as being neither one thing or the other depending on what other reviews you pay attention to) but the truth is that this album, once you get past it being 2 lengthy single tracks, is much more of an evolution of THC rather than an about turn or diversion
The theme. (If it’s Prog, there has to be one!) Is the effect on individuals who go into space of seeing the earth from that perspective. Apparently, this generally hits people in » Continue Reading.