An opulent progressive rock-electro patchwork with a seventies undertone and danced memories.
If you use your imagination, you can imagine that the 65 minutes of music contained on this album were created in the garage of a townhouse in north London. But basically: Steven Wilson’s ten tracks move through galaxies in a spaceship light years away; they are imagination, space odyssey or sound image (as someone so aptly wrote: an Escher painting made with sound).
In addition to the album, a limited book and CD set will be released with alternative versions, instrumental mixes, remixes (including from the Radiophonic Workshop), high-resolution stereo recordings and extra artwork. The compositions in this codex carry Wilson’s wildly back and forth signature from older productions into an opulent progressive rock-electro patchwork. Its centerpiece is the almost eleven-minute “Impossible Tightrope”, a space symphony fueled by metal guitars and choral singing that sometimes sounds as if a club of space cadets had played Bo Hansson’s LORD OF THE RINGS into Hades.
“What Life Brings” is reminiscent of Pink Floyd circa MEDDLE, and for moments also of a top Canterbury team from the 70s, led by Robert Wyatt. “Time Is Running Out” comes dancing like the revived Genesis from an electro beat garage. This is an immense piece of music, and it’s again about time, and memories, about everything that we can take with us – if in doubt, even into the vastness of space. The soundtrack for a film that should definitely be made.