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"The only thing I find offensive is the suggestion I’ve done something wrong by making the record I wanted to make." Steven Wilson and the trials of The Future Bites

Steven Wilson's sixth solo album, 2021's The Future Bites, was his most musically diverse and released to much critical acclaim, but not everyone was happy with it!

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“I knew how to play the whole of Misplaced Childhood when I was 12. I can’t bear to listen to it now – it reminds me of being a miserable 12-year-old”: How former Oceansize member Mike Vennart grew up and moved on

The band that made his name was a “troublesome, difficult” experience, but becoming a dad helped him put it all behind him

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Steven Wilson's Inclination gets remixed into nine minutes of cosmic Balearic beat

Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness' The AlbumYears podcast returns looking at albums made in 1977

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“It’s no wonder the lyrics are maudlin, but despite the difficulty of its creation, it’s still worthy of celebration”: Damnation is the Opeth album that works best on vinyl

Steven Wilson remix illustrates a side of Michael Åkerfeldt’s band that’s familiar now – but was a revelation in 2003

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Samsung partners with European artists for Galaxy S24 series accessories

Samsung Electronics collaborates with three European artists to create eye-catching accessories for the Galaxy S24 series, allowing customers to celebrate ...

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Jethro Tull to release Steven Wilson remix of The Château D’herouville Sessions on vinyl

Jethro Tull's 'great lost album' The Château D’herouville Sessions will be released in March

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The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – inventive Radiohead side project risks eclipsing the real thing

Despite all the lyrical disquiet, there is a lovely sense of ease to the Smile’s second album – and some of the best music Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have put their names to in at least a decade

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“I suppose what’s different is me. I’ve done a lot of exploring, particularly with Robert Fripp… Working with him was very easy, which doesn’t sit well with a lot of the public’s perceptions of him!” Theo Travis looks back

He’s worked with Soft Machine, Steven Wilson, The Tangent, Gong and more – but the saxophonist and flautist still has one collaborator on his bucket list

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Gentle Giant share new video for Steven Wilson remix of Two Weeks In Spain

The new Steven Wilson remix of Gentle Giant's 1977 album The Missing Piece will be released in February

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Gentle Giant announce new Steven Wilson remix of The Missing Piece

The new Steven Wilson remix of Gentle Giant's 1977 album The Missing Piece will be released in February

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Louder's writers pick their 10 favourite albums of 2023

Our staff and contributors individually pick the 10 albums that have shaped their year

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"I didn’t think I had it in me." Steven Wilson has released a surprise Christmas song after an unlikely challenge from a friend

You can listen to Steven Wilson's new AI-boosted seasonal offering December Skies here

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“I’m not going to say it’s a masterpiece, but it is a beautiful and a totally worthwhile entry in the Pink Floyd canon”: The highs and lows of Richard Wright’s limited solo work

One of the quietest ‘quiet ones’ in music released just two solo albums and one collaboration, preferring to go sailing instead – and it’s unlikely there’s more to be found

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“The albums I love the most were the ones where I wasn’t sure what I was listening to… There’s something great about music that’s beyond easy description or categorisation”: Steven Wilson gets it if you don’t get The Harmony Codex at first

He’s not out to mislead or deceive with his seventh solo album, but admits: “You can look for explanation, you can look for logic, but it’s not there”

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King Crimson and Can were among their go-to inspirations – but in the new romantic era, Talk Talk couldn’t admit it

Steve Hogarth, Tim Bowness, Richard Barbieri and others speak up for the band’s prog credentials

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Manic Street Preachers remix Steven Wilson's Economies of Scale

Steven Wilson recently released his seventh studio album The Harmony Codex

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“I met a gorgeous Steven Wilson fan. I then introduced her to my girlfriend… the story is told in my song Beautiful Night”: Franck Carducci’s life in prog

Leader of the Fantastic Squad on moonrise during a Roger Waters show, receiving a career kickstart at his favourite venue, and why Paul McCartney is his prog hero

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Yes Album remix proves prog rock mastery

Steven Wilson "spatializes" the original 1971 LP's song cycle, letting the band's musicianship soar

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"Where all this repackaging and repurposing is headed is anyone's guess, but we're surely beyond the point of diminishing returns": The Yes Album (Super Deluxe Edition)

Yes's breakthrough album has been effectively re-repackaged, again: there's plenty of greatness included, but when is enough enough?

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"Let's give them a record that they can lose themselves in": Steven Wilson doesn't think rock belongs in 2023 but he'll still try and make that million-seller

Steven Wilson is the renaissance man of modern prog. He’s also something of an enigma, and new album The Harmony Codex is as enigmatic as anything he's made

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Mikael Åkerfeldt reflects on Opeth's Damnation album: “Maybe we helped show people that experimentation isn’t necessarily a horrible thing – you should take your guard down when it comes to creativity”

Ahead of the reissue to mark its 20th anniversary, the Swedish band's 'mellow' album is rightly remembered as a brave and successful step forwards: “It was like starting from scratch with lots of experience and no distortion!” its mastermind tells us

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Opeth share previously 'lost' video for Windowpane

Opeth's 2003 album Damnation to be reissued on deluxe vinyl in December

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Steven Wilson shares "gothic horror story" video for Beautiful Scarecrow

Steven Wilson recently released his seventh studio album The Harmony Codex

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“Rock is the cult music of the 21st century, in the same way that jazz became a cult. Maybe that’s not a bad thing”: Steven Wilson says the days of rock bands selling a million records are over

Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson has a controversial view of rock’s place in the scheme of things in 2023

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“The perception of what kind of band you are can count for so much… The hard lesson to learn is that the quality of the music counts for very little”: Steven Wilson on Porcupine Tree’s slow rise to success

After a 20-year struggle to secure their status, the band leader looked back on what it took to score a top 30 album

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