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I have too much of a fully fledged man crush for this guy to say something rational about this album.
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back off he's mine.Originally Posted by profane
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Can we share?
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Only if I also get Gavin Harrison on weekends.
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We've got ourselves a deal.
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Every time I listen to Routine and get to the part where Ninet lets loose at the end, I get some serious chills. Her voice is incredible. I really hope that Steven can get her on the tour...
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So, after a few headphone listens, my opinion is, wait for it... good! :-)
Some random thoughts... sometimes it reminds me 70's Pink Floyd, there is some serious "Whiplash" (movie) drumming in e.g. Ancestral, sometimes I find myself thinking that maybe the drummer has heavy metal background for some reason, start of track 3 reminded me of U2's Beautiful Day :-), lots of nice clean guitar layers... let's see how it works live.
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You're in for a real treat. His shows are incredible.Noticed Steven Wilson is playing Cardiff on the 13th and bought a ticket to go on my own. I don't actually know any of his stuff but I listened to a soundcloud song from the latest album and liked what I heard, I like some prog music generally so I'm looking forward to going to a gig and just letting the music wash over me without worrying about any socialising aspect
And welcome to the wonderful world of Steven Wilson. If you're into prog you'll love his music. He has a massive back-catalog that will keep you busy for years. I've been a fan for almost five years and there is still a decent amount of his music that I haven't gotten around to yet.
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so the CD has the multi-part songs (i.e. "First Regret/3 Years Older") indexed separately, longer pauses between songs, and has a crossfade between "Regret #9" and "Transience," in addition to being fractionally louder (as in, would never register with a different DR rating) than the download version. none of the differences really make sense except for the first, since it means songs don't get cut off in shuffle playlist world – which is ironic, for a Steven Wilson album...
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I'm a bit surprised about so overwhelmingly positive response on the new album. To be honest, this didn't grab me nearly as much as Raven, I can appreciate technical brilliance and effort that was obviously put into this, but these songs just don't click with me, there's something missing and I don't know what it is. I know this is supposed to be super atmospheric, telling a story kind of an album, but I just don't feel it. Raven took you to some other place when you listened to it, this just doesn't do it for me.
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Ugh, still hasn't come.
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mine arrived today (at my parents' house, of course, because i ship everything there just in case) but i probably won't have time to listen to it until next weekend
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Mine hasn't arrived but i downloaded the itunes version anyway, since i won't have a CD player near most of the week...
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Raven swept you off to some place, part Victorian era and part abstract modern place, to tell its ghost stories. Hand.Cannot.Erase is the very real here and now. Your daily binary dose of high resolution monitors, social networks and television for you to swim through. Perhaps why you're not connecting is because your already swimming in it. The protagonist is female, but she represents a piece of all of us living in a society driven more and more about what is occurring online than what is occurring outside your front door; and the physical isolation of a new world anybody can achieve, yet still be "connected."
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For those that did not get the Blu-ray or DVD or perhaps you just want to purchase to download the high resolution 24 bit studio files of Hand.Cannot.Erase. in stereo, it will be available from HDTracks tomorrow, March 3rd. I'm assuming (as has been in the past) you will also be able to purchase from Burning Shed 24.
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A new interview. Lengthy, this one...
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/inte...steven_wilson/
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Still no word as to whether Steven will have a female vocalist accompanying him on tour. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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just unpacked my deluxe edition and looked through the book. holy shit, the attention to detail and simply the amount of work that went into this project is incredible. i haven't even heard a single song from the album yet and i was covered in goosebumps just looking at the images and skimming the text. all of the extra little things they put in the pages are so fantastic, too. (i want to actually make that mixtape!)
i can not wait to listen to this. it'll be my reward for making it through this week from hell.
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sorry for the double post.
holy crap, this album is good. i was worried when it started so upbeat but it's so well-crafted and gorgeous that i stopped caring and then it got progressively darker. i'm on "ancestral" right now on my first listen-through (using headphones right now, will be listening in 5.1 later in the week, hopefully) and it just keeps getting better and better.
this man is a fucking genius who has assembled an astounding group of musicians to help realize his incredible vision.
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It's his most diverse work since Insurgentes, and his most accessible songs since Fear of a Blank Planet. As a whole it is wonderful and there's very little weakness, but "Routine" might stand out a little even further for me. It bridges a lot of the gaps of that diversity just so, and the vocal delivery by both SW and Ninet is lovely.
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Just received my standard CD edition. Absolutely sublime. Still waiting on my deluxe book and vinyl though...
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"Home invasion" it's my favorite track right now, but i love all of them!
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Really enjoy The Perfect Life. My initial reaction to the album was average at best. My opinion has changed some. Not a bad album by any means. I think my expectations were just extremely high after the last two. Those two albums (for me) are incredibly hard to top.
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Just finally listened to it, this to me is as close to PT as it can get, some guitar tones sound familiar to PT, I may be wrong but I don't recall hearing that as much in the previous two solo records, maybe in insurgentes only.
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I hear PT, and hear some Blackfield. This album seems like a good mix of everything he's done up to now.
bastard from blue city
i'd say the true tale of everything SW does in one go is still Insurgentes, but obviously this one still has the Yes-style prog that he only developed GFD-onwards.
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Entered in at number 7 on the UK charts, his highest charting position ever there.
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Interesting interview, no mastering? Wow. :-O
PUSHING THE AURAL ENVELOPE WITH HIGH-RES AUDIO EVANGELIST STEVEN WILSON
http://www.digitaltrends.com/feature...-cannot-erase/
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he hasn't gotten any of his solo albums mastered, if i remember correctly (at least not since grace for drowning). i'm also fairly certain that all of the "remasters" that he does for people in 5.1 aren't mastered. he's actually (and obviously) reMIXing them (but not RE-mixing them).
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