Steven Wilson - The Future Bites out today

Wilson's latest album is out, months after it was meant to be released, but delayed by Covid-19.

Just had a first listen. It's not really to my taste, but it's certainty not terrible.

I don't agree with the above posters. It is pretty terrible, especially for a musician of his caliber. To the Bone was way way way better.

From the songs I heard it's not my cup of tea but I'm happy that he's put out some product for the faithful in this locked in Covid era.

Unboxing of the £10,000 Steven Wilson box set..........(money was for charity). The buyer, Alan Lastufka, who lives in Oregon is in the music industry as well.

Edited by Catcher10 - January 29 2021 at 19:00

I concur. It's not really an album that excites me.

The social commentary is obviously something he cares about, but I don't really want too much of that in my music. I'd rather have his old topics of serial killers and trains.

Two listens in, I could say it is his least exciting solo album so far, which does not necessarily make it a bad one. In fact, I would still listen to 'The Future Bites' over all the garbage that comes out of the mainstream.

The artist, the fan and the critic. The fan is the end user who has a general love for the artist's style and will accept to a degree, anything the artist offers but will express his up  or down   based on their history with said artist. The artist is the sole decider of his art and the direction he/she /it chooses. The critic , on the other hand , has no business DICTATING with words what an artist SHOULD be making as far as the artist's music is concerned. ("How dare you make something that does not fit my preconceptions of what I want!"). Those who choose to pan an artist are perhaps entitled to express their opinion, as world-class experts on music that they surely believe they are, but invariably because they are non-artists themselves (as Zappa once proudly stated)  , they will come across as overbearing, brash, loud mouths who enjoy the words they type with such negative gusto. Online , many eschew answering or even reading any debate in question, so concentrated they are on glorifying themselves in their typos, feeling so clever in jumping on the negative bus and riding it to no end. It is the artist taking the risk , not the critic . What is sad, is , like it or not, Wilson is not discovering new territory at all, just going back to where he had already been.  There are many fine synthpop/electronic pop artists out there that have made and are making fab music to this day. Get a more positive grip, experts! Whatever, Wilson is still better than commercial radio of the past 20 years! 

Edited by tszirmay - January 30 2021 at 18:33

King of Loss wrote: No offense, there's way better pop out there.