“Do I ever look at Steven Wilson and think, ‘Why is he having top-five albums and I’m not?’ No”: Tim Bowness found catharsis in exploring forced isolation on Late Night Laments

Tim Bowness.

The coronavirus pandemic opened the floodgates of creativity for many prog musicians. As 2020 became a year to forget, No-Man’s Tim Bowness grabbed the opportunity to explore the idea of enforced isolation on his intimate sixth solo release, Late Night Laments.

Tim Bowness finished work on his new album Late Night Laments the day lockdown was announced. A self-professed news junkie, he’d seen the pandemic coming early. “I was aware of it from the very early reports in China,” he says. “I’d seen articles and said to my partner: ‘This could be the year unfolding.’”