Steven Wilson announces new album ‘Requiem For A Village’ with eclectic title track

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Steven Wilson has announced his new album ‘Requiem For A Village’. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Steven Wilson: “I’ve tried to reinvent the classic rock guitar solo” The former Porcupine Tree musician and cult singer-songwriter released his eighth studio album ‘The Overview’ last year, a record inspired by the Overview Effect, the phenomenon experienced by astronauts when they first view Earth from outer space. Now, he’s announced its follow-up, ‘Requiem For A Village’, which will be released on November 6 via Fiction Records. Per a press release, this album is a rejection of modernity, with Wilson actively eschewing AI and corrective studio technologies in favour of live, organic instrumentation. It also features narration written by Andy Partridge of XTC and voiced by David Tennant. Speaking about the LP, Wilson said: “I wanted to get back to a kind of music where you can hear the metaphorical thumbprints. Doubling down on the human gestures and flaws in the music, stuff that can’t be created using software. “For example using only analogue synths with all their unpredictability, or not having instruments perfectly in tune. But it also lead to me picking up the violin, t...

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