Steven Wilson has announced details of To The Bone – his expansive, brilliant fifth album – and a major 2018 UK tour including a return to one of the country’s most iconic venues, the Royal Albert Hall. Pre-order the album here.

A gloriously dynamic modernist pop record as imagined by the UK’s biggest underground artist,

To The Bone is released August 18^th via Caroline International on CD / 2 x 12? / Blu-Ray / super deluxe box set and all digital platforms.

Fusing driving futurist rock and spectral electronics to elegiac hyper-space ambience and dizzying, squalling guitars, To The Bone is Steven Wilson’s hat-tip to the hugely ambitious progressive pop records of his youth (think Peter Gabriel’s So, Talk Talk’s Colour of Spring, Tears for Fears Seeds of Love).

Lyrically, the album’s eleven tracks veer from the paranoid chaos of the post-truth era and the creeping self-loathing of the technology age to steely fly-on-the-wall observations of the everyday lives of religious fundamentalists with a welcome shot or two of wide-eyed escapism. Sonically and melodically stunning, To The Bone is a high definition snapshot of the disconcerting times we live in.

The follow up to 2015’s Hand. Cannot. Erase. (“a smart, soulful and immersive work of art” the Guardian 5*), To The Bone is Steven Wilson’s first album since signing with Caroline International (Iggy Pop, Underworld, Thurston Moore, Glass Animals). Formerly the founder and mainstay of outsider rock band Porcupine Tree, Steven released his first record under his own name – Insurgentes – in 2008. He has been resolutely independent throughout a three-decade career that’s made him the most successful British artist you’ve never heard of.

Listen to ‘Pariah’ from the new album here:

Steven Wilson has announced details of a huge global tour that takes in over one hundred shows across all five continents including a 25 date US tour that sees him return to the renowned Beacon Theatre, NY after last year’s sell out there. His European dates are:

Wed 31^st Jan ? Portugal, Lisbon, Sala Tejo at the MEO Arena

Thu 1^st Feb? Spain, Madrid, Wiznik Centre

Sat 3^rd Feb? Spain, Barcelona, L?Auditori

Sun 4^th Feb? France, Marseille, Silo

Tue 6^th Feb? France, Lyon, Le Transbordeur

Wed 7^th Feb? Switzerland, Zurich, Halle 622

Fri 9^th Feb? Italy, Milan, Teatro Degli Arcimboldi

Sat 10^th Feb? ? Italy, Rome, Atlantico

Mon 12^th Feb? Germany, Frankfurt, Alte Oper

Tue 13^th Feb? Germany, Ravensburg, Oberachwabenhalle

Wed 14^th Feb? Austria, Vienna, Gasometer

Thu 15^th Feb? Germany, Berlin, Admiralpalast

Sat 17^th Feb? ? Poland, Zabrze, House of Music and Dance

Sun 18^th Feb ? Poland, Poznan, Earth Hall

Tue 20^th Feb? – Germany, Hamburg, Mehr Theatre

Sat 24^th Feb? ? – Finland, Helsinki, The Circus

Mon 26^th Feb? – Sweden, Stockholm, Cirkus

Tue 27^th Feb? – Norway, Oslo, Oslo Concert House

Wed 28^th Feb? – Norway, Bergen, USF Verftet

Thu 1^st Mar? ? – Norway, Stavanger, Konserthuset – Zetlitz

Sat 3^rd Mar? ? Denmark, Copenhagen, Vega Main Hall

Mon 5^th Mar ? – Germany, Essen, Colosseum

Wed 7^th Mar ? – The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall

Fri 9^th Mar? ? – Belgium, Brussels, AB

Sat 10^th Mar ? – Luxembourg, Rockhal Club

Mon 12^th Mar? – France, Paris, The Olympia

Tue 13^th Mar? – France, Lille, Theatre Sebastopol

 

Sat 17^th Mar ? Belfast Mandela Hall

Mon 19^th Mar ? Dublin Olympia Theatre

Wed 21^st Mar ? Cardiff St David’s Hall

Thu 22^nd Mar? Birmingham Symphony Hall

Sat 24^th Mar ? Glasgow Clyde Auditorium

Sun 25^th Mar ? Gateshead Sage 1

Tue 27^th Mar – – – – – London Royal Albert Hall

Sat 31^st Mar ? Manchester Bridgewater Hall

Tickets for the UK tour are on sale from 10am Friday 12^th May (with a fan only pre-sale on Wednesday 10^th May).

To The Bone tracklisting:

 

1. To The Bone
2. Nowhere Now
3. Pariah
4. The Same Asylum As Before
5. Refuge
6. Permanating
7. Blank Tapes
8. People Who Eat Darkness
9. Song of I
10. Detonation
11. Song of Unborn

The super deluxe box set features the album, a CD of outtakes and demos, a Blu Ray, a DVD, a fully illustrated book and a one-sided 7? single featuring non-album track.

For more information, contact Robin at Turner Hall.

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