“To the Bone”: Steven Wilson's new album (+ 3 videos)

Steven Wilson‘s new album is out on August 18 on a new label, Caroline Records.

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.

It’s been over two and a half years years since the release of Steven Wilson‘s last album Hand. Cannot. Erase., a major conceptual project involving the creation of a whole back story for the main character through the blog and the most elaborate deluxe edition to date. The album sold very well, reaching the top 5 in Germany, The Netherlands and Finland, number 13 in the UK and number 38 in the US Billboard top 200. The subsequent tour consisted of 150 shows, including 2 special sold out shows at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

All of his 4 albums have been very different in character from each other, and once again this latest album will be a step into something quite different, as well as on a new label.

Wilson says: "Looking around the world today, it's hard not to feel some sense of disenchantment at everything that's going on. Not just politics, but the way people are with each other, very rude and aggressive, intolerant. It seems like something's gone terribly wrong".
He began to write To The Bone in 2005 while being on tour for Hand.Cannot.Erase.

To the Bone Track Listing:

1. To The Bone
2. Nowhere Now
3. Pariah
4. The Same Asylum As Before
5. Refuge
6. Permanating
7. Blank Tapes
8. People Who Eat Darkness
9. Song Of I
10. Detonation
11. Song Of Unborn

Here's three of these songs: