The Overview (album)

2025 studio album by Steven Wilson

The Overview

Studio album by

Steven Wilson

Released| 14 March 2025
Length| 41:44
Label| Fiction
Steven Wilson chronology
| The Harmony Codex
(2023)  | The Overview
(2025)  |

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Professional ratingsAggregate scores

Source| Rating
Metacritic| 84/100[1]
Review scores
Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
Clash| 8/10[3]
Classic Rock| [4]
Mojo| [5]
Sputnikmusic| 2.9/5[6]

The Overview (stylised TH5 OV5RV95W) is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock musician Steven Wilson, released on 14 March 2025 via Fiction Records. Featuring only two 20-minute tracks, it returned to a progressive rock sound after Wilson had previously moved into more electronic territory with recent releases.

## Background

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The record is a concept album about the Overview effect, a cognitive shift caused by viewing the Earth from space. This concept was utilized as a starting point for the sound of the record, which was described by Wilson as being similar to acts such as Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, and Vangelis in "a modern context".[7] Wilson has stated that the album is going to be considerably more progressive rock influenced than much of his recent work, stating that he felt the concept geared itself well to the genre.[7]

On 25 February 2025, the record premiered at the BFI IMAX alongside a commissioned film by Miles Skarin.[8] Alongside the main album, a deluxe edition titled The Alterview, featuring an additional hour of music, will be released.[9] A tour will also start in promotion of the record on 1 May 2025, his first headlining solo tour in over seven years.[7][10]

## Track listing

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All music is composed by Steven Wilson.

The Overview track listingNo.| Title| Lyrics| Length

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1.| "Objects Outlive Us"

* "No Monkey's Paw"
* "The Buddha of the Modern Age"
* "Objects: Meanwhile"
* "The Cicerones"
* "Ark"
* "Cosmic Sons of Toil"
* "No Ghost on the Moor"
* "Heat Death of the Universe"

* Wilson
* Andy Partridge

| 23:17
2.| "The Overview"
* "Perspective"
* "A Beautiful Infinity I"
* "Borrowed Atoms"
* "A Beautiful Infinity II"
* "Infinity Measured in Moments"
* "Permanence"
| Wilson| 18:27
Total length:| 41:44

## Personnel

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### "Objects Outlive Us"

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* Steven Wilson – vocals, guitar, bass,keyboards, percussion, piano, pump organ, production, mixing, engineering
* Adam Holzman – Hammond organ, Mellotron, piano, Rhodes, synthesizer
* Randy McStine – background vocals, guitar, sound effects, vocals
* Theo Travis – flute, saxophone
* Russell Holzman – drums
* Willow Beggs – vocals

### "The Overview"

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* Steven Wilson – vocals, guitar, bass, drum programming, keyboards, percussion, piano, pump organ, production, mixing, engineering
* Adam Holzman – background vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesizer
* Randy McStine – background vocals, guitar, keyboards, sound effects, ukulele, vocals
* Craig Blundell – drums
* Theo Travis – saxophone
* Rotem Wilson – vocals

## References

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1. ^ "The Overview by Steven Wilson". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
2. ^ Jurek, Thom. "The Overview – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
3. ^ Connor, Christopher (13 March 2025). "Steven Wilson - The Overview". Clash. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
4. ^ Roberts, Chris (10 March 2025). ""It would be an obtuse listener who didn't grasp how splendid this record is": Steven Wilson's The Harmony Codex is a high-wire act that few artists could pull off". Classic Rock. Retrieved 14 March 2025 - via Loudersound.
5. ^ Doyle, Tom (4 March 2025). "Steven Wilson The Overview Reviewed: Dazzlingly ambitious set from the modern day progfather". Mojo. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
6. ^ Stanciu, Raul (14 March 2025). "Album Review - Steven Wilson: The Overview". Sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
7. ^ a b c Everleypublished, Dave (2024-12-20). ""I've gone back to a more progressive style." Steven Wilson will release new album The Overview in March". louder. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
8. ^ SW (2025-01-23). "The Overview Album + Film Preview Events". Steven Wilson. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
9. ^ "Steven Wilson / The Overview – SuperDeluxeEdition". 2025-01-09. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
10. ^ Blabbermouth (2025-01-27). "STEVEN WILSON Announces North American Leg Of 'The Overview' Tour". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved 2025-02-23.

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* Insurgentes
* Grace for Drowning
* The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
* Hand. Cannot. Erase.
* To the Bone
* The Future Bites
* The Harmony Codex
* The Overview

Live albums|

* Catalogue / Preserve / Amass
* Get All You Deserve
* Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Compilation albums|

* Cover Version
* Transience

EPs|

* NSRGNTS RMXS
* Drive Home
* 4+1⁄2

Singles|

* "Harmony Korine"
* "Stoneage Dinosaurs"
* "Postcard"
* "Pariah"

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* Last Day of June

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