“In post-truth times, joyous music may seem absurd, but Steven Wilson makes it,
and the times we live in, feel alright.” – Pop Matters
Steven Wilson has announced today’s premiere of an apocalyptic new song. “Eminent Sleaze” is available now for streaming and download; an official video directed by Miles Skarin is streaming now at YouTube. “Eminent Sleaze” is a wholly unethical life lesson strapped to a piece of grimy, low-slung funk, and as much a departure from Steven’s previous records as its immediate predecessor. The song heralds Wilson’s eagerly awaited sixth solo album, THE FUTURE BITES, due to arrive via Arts & Crafts on January 29, 2021, following a delay caused by the initial onset of COVID-19 and a subsequent revision. A striking trailer previewing the album’s provocative themes of high-concept consumerism and post-internet evolution is streaming now via YouTube.
WATCH THE FUTURE BITES TRAILER
THE FUTURE BITES will be available on all digital platforms, along with vinyl, CD and a limited edition deluxe box set that contains CDs of the album, an instrumental version of the album, bonus material (including six additional songs and several reworked versions of album tracks, among them a 19-minute extended mix of “Personal Shopper”), a cassette of demos, and a Blu-Ray featuring videos, Wilson’s own 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Atmos versions of the album (marking THE FUTURE BITES as the first contemporary album to be mixed and released in Dolby Atmos). THE FUTURE BITES was first revealed earlier this year with the premiere of the epic first single, “Personal Shopper,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services.
Co-produced in London by Wilson with David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything), THE FUTURE BITES sees Wilson exploring contemporary addiction and the lasting effect of ever-increasing technology on our daily lives. The album marks his most inventive and far-reaching musical construction to date, spanning soaring acoustics, lush electronica, relentless bass-driven grooves, murky funk, and so much more, all linked through powerfully focused songcraft and this one-of-a-kind artist’s always unique creative vision.
Hailed by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke for his “fighting spirit and truly progressive ideals in rock composition, group improvisation and emotionally authentic storytelling,” Wilson recently launched an official THE FUTURE BITES webstore, featuring a fully imagined consumer universe. The website will crack a door open onto a wonderful world of purchase power, a place where everything is marketable and nothing is too random or too moronic to be considered valuable. Inspired by notable 21st century artefacts like the Virgil Abloh ceramic block or Vitality Air’s canned Canadian oxygen, THE FUTURE BITES website is a fully imagined consumer universe (built in collaboration with Baby and Crystal Spotlight) designed to be accessible and addictive to anyone from the casual fan to the hardcore collector. The site will feature regular drops of limited edition merchandise over the coming months - this could be anything from a slogan shirt to a branded hole punch.
VISIT THE FUTURE BITES WEBSITE
THE FUTURE BITES follows 2017’s critically acclaimed TO THE BONE – Wilson’s highest charting release thus far. Along with its remarkable popular success, TO THE BONE received ecstatic praise from the likes of Uncut, which wrote, “This insistently melodic, 11-song set is an old-school, sum-of-its parts experience.” TO THE BONE “keeps its pop and prog influences in a near perfect balance,” declared MOJO in a four-starred rave, “flash and flamboyant at times but with some lovingly crafted big tunes.” “TO THE BONE offers the song-centered side of Wilson’s musical world while maintaining clear connections with all elements of his formidable discography,” wrote Pop Matters. “Wilson’s music, whether encouraging a brighter outlook or a better understanding of what drives people to violence looks for the humanity in inhumane times. Music, like any great art form, should always aspire to that.”
Wilson followed TO THE BONE with a massive world tour that saw him playing to more than a quarter million fans at 145 shows in 33 countries, culminating in a sold-out three-night residency at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall captured for posterity on 2018’s Blu-ray/DVD and live album, HOME INVASION: IN CONCERT AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL, available now in a variety of formats. “HOME INVASION showcases (Wilson’s) range as a songwriter and musical thinker,” enthused Pop Matters. “It does not simply aim to capture the performances onstage. The cameras, restless more often than not, train their lenses on every facet of the concert experience, spanning the iconic ‘mushroom’ sound-diffusing saucers on the ceiling of the venue to the audience itself…HOME INVASION: IN CONCERT AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL joins Wilson’s superb coterie of live concert films, capturing him at the zenith of his career.”
STEVEN WILSON
THE FUTURE BITES
(Arts & Crafts)
Release Date: January 29, 2021
INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS COOPER by Alexander Laurence Serial murders have become more prevalent in American Society. Are you ver...
EMAIL me at AlexLaurence @ AOL (dot) com "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, inf...
No comments:
Post a Comment