Blimey Steven Wilson has aged well
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:53 (eight months ago) link
Ha, seriously, he's like the Paul Rudd of pasty British prog dudes.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:54 (eight months ago) link
btw the album is excellent. a real evolution on what he started with the Future Bites. Unsurprisingly prog whiners are hating it and claiming one song is 'rap'.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:04 (eight months ago) link
yeah it's a little freaky honestly
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:06 (eight months ago) link
I haven’t heard it yet, beyond the first couple of advance songs, since I was hoping to pick up a copy first. But it seems to have piss poor American distribution, none of the stores around here got a copy in any format and even Amazon is showing early November at best to get it and that’s only from third party sellers.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:59 (eight months ago) link
Oh yeah, check the Hoffman forumsFor more tales of fucked distribution for this. I ordered it from his own website and no idea when Townsend are shipping it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 05:51 (eight months ago) link
Unsurprisingly prog whiners are hating it
I'm a prog whiner who abhors Wilson's repudiation of prog over the last two records. Like, why make good pop when you can make great prog?
I haven't listened to the new one properly yet but from what I've heard it sounds more proggy than TTB and TFB, which is fine with me.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:07 (eight months ago) link
have you guys seen the insane video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmd-MNCt6u8
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 October 2023 10:42 (eight months ago) link
wow that's magnificent
I know I've gotten cynical in my old age because my first thought was "jesus, I wonder what this cost" But I love the video and the song. Looking forward to this album.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 October 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
yeah the videos for everything have been awesome and they do not look cheap.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:17 (eight months ago) link
I know he gets some flack for doing a lot of expensive super deluxe edition stuff (even while writing tracks aimed directly at that exact corner of consumer culture) but I truly think everything he makes goes right back into his work so I'm okay with it. I mean his records just sound expensive somehow
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:40 (eight months ago) link
throwin' that Jethro Tull remaster money around
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 5 October 2023 15:40 (eight months ago) link
I had the super deluxe editions of all his solo albums through To the Bone but sold them off recently (except for HCE) mainly because I never really listened to those bonus tracks and I don't have a surround system. The books were very nice though. Raven has a short story for every song (which I never read, and now I guess I never will)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 21:09 (eight months ago) link
The Album Years podcast with Wilson and Bowness is a lot of fun. Only heard of it when the videos started uploading on youtube
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:35 (two months ago) link