Steven Wilson Announces New Album & 2018 Tour

New album August 18^th 2017… massive global 2018 tour announced…

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.

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.

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.

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