Released: 2025
Genres: Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Progressive Electronic
The Musiquarium’s The Overview Review Score: 7.5 out of 10
After spending his past few albums exploring an increased focus on pop songwriting, Steven Wilson’s The Overview is his most progressive-sounding album in a decade.
The Overview consists of only two songs, clocking in at 23 and 18 minutes long. Objects Outlive Us begins with some experimental synthesizers, which sound like you’re drifting through space. After the intro section, some piano comes in, before giving way to the song’s first guitar solo. A bridge follows, then calms down and leads to a second guitar solo, that eventually concludes the song. The second solo is more typically Pink Floyd (circa Animals), a band who has had a major influence of Wilson’s work.
The title track sets itself apart from Objects Outlive Us, by having a stronger electronic sound, more akin some of the songs off his last album (The Harmony Codex), or like Porcupine Tree’s 1995 album, The Sky Moves Sideways. After about five minutes of electronic noises and female spoken-word vocals (like what was found on The Harmony Codex‘ title track), acoustic guitars are introduced and takes things back down to Earth. After what sounds like some classical guitar, the listener finds themselves back into the vastness of time and space, with the album providing one last come down, through electric piano.
The Overview is another solid Steven Wilson project, though it doesn’t really break much new ground for Steven Wilson, outside of somewhat lengthier tracks then what we’re used to. Due to the songs’ lengths, I probably won’t return too much to this project as often as some of his others, but for when the mood fits, these songs make for great sonic experiences.
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Written by Brett Nippard
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