The Overview is this year’s most daring work of high-concept progressive rock so far. It is the sound of Steven Wilson operating on the forefront of his imagination, telling the story of what it’s like to be out in the final frontier, then to have the dissociative effects of returning home to Earth.
How those astronauts must feel – what researchers call The Overview Effect – must be something similar to how Randy McStine felt when Wilson told him what he wanted for his guitar solo, or maybe once he had completed it.
