Steven Wilson fans are in for a treat today! After many months of writing and recording, the band has finally announced the details of the new album, To The Bone, and a major European tour in early 2018. Also released today is the finished version of a track from the album, "Pariah", a song Steven Wilson wrote especially to be a duet with the vocalist Ninet Tayeb, who was also featured on the latest album, Hand. Cannot. Erase. and 4½. Enjoy the music below as well as other details regarding the record.




Wilson shared: "My fifth record is in many ways inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth (think Peter Gabriel's So, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, Talk Talk's Colour of Spring and Tears for Fears' Seeds of Love). Lyrically, the album's eleven tracks veer from the paranoid chaos of the current era in which truth can apparently be a flexible notion, observations of the everyday lives of refugees, terrorists and religious fundamentalists, and a welcome shot of some of the most joyous wide-eyed escapism I've created in my career so far. Something for all the family!"




To The Bone is due to be released on 18th August but is available now to pre-order in a variety of formats, including a special deluxe hard back 120 page book edition, which includes an exclusive full length CD of demos and unused songs, and a one-sided 7 inch vinyl single of a bonus instrumental song from the album sessions. Neither of these will be available anywhere else.

2018 tour dates:

Jan 31: Lisbon, Sala Tejo at the MEO Arena, Portugal
Feb 01: Madrid, Wiznik Centre, Spain
Feb 03: Barcelona, L'Auditori, Spain
Feb 04: Marseille, Silo, France
Feb 06: Lyon, Le Transbordeur, France
Feb 07: Zurich, Halle 622, Switzerland
Feb 09: Milan, Teatro Degli Arcimboldi, Italy
Feb 10: Rome, Atlantico, Italy
Feb 12: Frankfurt, Alte Oper, Germany
Feb 13: Ravensburg, Oberachwabenhalle, Germany
Feb 14: Vienna, Gasometer, Austria
Feb 15: Berlin, Admiralpalast, Germany
Feb 17: Zabrze, House of Music and Dance, Poland
Feb 18: Poznan, Earth Hall, Poland
Feb 20: Hamburg, Mehr Theatre, Germany
Feb 24: Helsinki, The Circus, Finland
Feb 26: Stockholm, Cirkus, Sweden
Feb 27: Oslo, Concert House, Norway
Feb 28: Bergen, USF Verftet, Norway
Mar 01: Stavanger, Konserthuset Zetlitz, Norway
Mar 03: Copenhagen, Vega Main Hall, Denmark
Mar 05: Essen, Colosseum, Germany
Mar 07: Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall, Netherlands
Mar 09: Brussels, AB, Belgium
Mar 10: Luxembourg, Rockhal Club, Luxembourg
Mar 12: Paris, The Olympia, France
Mar 13: Lille, Theatre Sebastopol, Lille
Mar 17: Belfast, Mandela Hall, UK
Mar 19: Dublin, Olympia Theatre, Ireland
Mar 21: Cardiff, St David's Hall, UK
Mar 22: Birmingham, Symphony Hall, UK
Mar 24: Glasgow, Clyde Auditorium, UK
Mar 25: Gateshead, Sage 1, UK
Mar 27: London, Royal Albert Hall, UK
Mar 31: Manchester, Bridgewater Hall, UK

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Band profile:	Steven Wilson