Bumping the Porcupine Tree thread gives the false impression there's actually news about the band, so let's have a separate thread for Steven Wilson's solo stuff - especially since solo career definitely seems to be his main path now. This interview contains a comment that's depressing for those of us who want more Porcupine Tree: Steven Wilson: Hiding in Plain Sight Review | Under the Radar - Music Magazine
Also read the link to see how fucking grumpy he is about social media and that people don't interact in the ways he thinks they should. But basically everything he recorded up to 2009 is brilliant, so I guess I can forgive him yelling at a few clouds.
He's released a new EP this month called 4.5, a sort of stopgap of outtakes before his fifth solo album. It's not bad, though the live version of PT's Don't Hate Me at the end is the most sterile live recording I've ever heard. They might as well have done it in a recording studio.
But it is frustrating sometimes that I have to explain to them, four albums into my solo career, that if Porcupine Tree was to get back together—and, by the way, I have never ruled that out—it will be a side project. There should be no question in anyone's mind that this is now my main musical path, my solo work.
Also read the link to see how fucking grumpy he is about social media and that people don't interact in the ways he thinks they should. But basically everything he recorded up to 2009 is brilliant, so I guess I can forgive him yelling at a few clouds.
He's released a new EP this month called 4.5, a sort of stopgap of outtakes before his fifth solo album. It's not bad, though the live version of PT's Don't Hate Me at the end is the most sterile live recording I've ever heard. They might as well have done it in a recording studio.