FILTER ALBUMS
“Prog is kind of cool again.”
Steven Wilson speaks to Tom Doyle.
Interstellar overview: Steven Wilson gets cosmic.
The ‘Overview Effect’: astronauts experiencing a psychological transformation after having visited space. Why was the idea so attractive to you?
“Well, they have this kind of cognitive shift in their own perspective on life and what’s important. And that can be a positive or a negative thing. Some people have had a very negative reaction to that. The idea seemed to lend itself to a more cinematic approach. So that then became, in my head: Wouldn’t it be interesting to write something longform? That was why I decided to go back to a more extended, ‘progressive’ kind of format.”