Steven Wilson - The Overview Album Review
Steven Wilson The Overview / ST5V5N W9LS15N – TH5 OV5RV95W Out Now on Fiction Records Album Review Oh! How we needed Punk Rock! The turgidity and suffocation of the hippy dominated long-haired Prog Rock amblings suffocated like a winter duvet on a warm spring morning. The singles market was thriving with cut and paste emotions, smash and grab lyrics and the briefest of brief guitar solos and breaks. Everything under three minutes for a quid, with a quirky B-side thrown in, (sometimes a proper gem). Survivors from this edgy, musical tidal shift hold onto the mantra “Don’t bore us, get us to the chorus!” Elder siblings, or the long-hairs of the upper school were boring. Parties full of dope smoking lay-abouts listening to albums were tedious. The older kids could get about in fifth-hand motors bought for £50, carrying a prized album to play, when we were looking for the punch of Glam Rock. I recall a house party where an elder brother of the party g...