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Order the new CD, Nsrgnts Rmxs by Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson and get a limited* autographed CD booklet with purchase!
About Steven Wilson:
Insurgentes, the debut album from Steven Wilson, was released earlier this year on Kscope. The album immediately received a rapturous reception from not just fans and critics but also from fellow artists. Several of these artists have remixed tracks from the album and Nsrgnts Rmxs is a collection of some of these remixes.
Nsrgnts Rmxs opens with a mix of "Harmony Korine" by David A. Sitek, currently enjoying massive critical acclaim for the new TV On The Radio album. Underground hip-hop pioneers Dalek have created a dark, brooding mix of "Get All You Deserve" (think Massive Attack meets UNKLE).
Engineers, who return on July 6th with their new album Three Fact Fader, have brought their widescreen sound to "Abandoner" while Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC) has created a sprawling mix of "Salvaging" and drone act Fear Falls Burning have also reworked "Get All You Deserve."
One of the most eclectic and prolific artists in rock music, Steven Wilson has been writing, recording, and producing music continuously since the age of 10. Best known as the frontman of Porcupine Tree, Wilson is also the key component in various other projects including No-man, Blackfield, Bass Communion as well as a respected producer and mixer acclaimed for his work with Opeth and Anja Garbarek amongst others.
Insurgentes comprises 10 tracks that range from ballads and anthems to all-out industrial noise assaults, the dark, cinematic and richly textured album represents two years' worth of creative output and numerous recording sessions worldwide in studios from Mexico City to Japan and Israel.
While Wilson is a member of several bands including Blackfield, No-Man and Bass Communion, he explains that "when I began writing these songs, I quickly realised that they would be best suited to an album under my own name. It was an intuitive, almost unconscious writing process that resulted in a kind of 'poetry of melancholy'." The final product inhabits a similar experimental realm as recent albums by Thom Yorke, Portishead, and Nine Inch Nails. |
