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“It’s a $20 plugin… I love it because sometimes the problem with digital sounds is they just lack a little bit of character”: Steven Wilson reveals the plugin that's on "almost all" the guitars on his new space rock epic

And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?

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“This was specifically wanting it to have the sort of grandiosity of a Comfortably Numb-type guitar solo but without really referencing that vocabulary”: Randy McStine reveals all behind his cosmically epic solo on Steven Wilson's The Overview

When Wilson asked McStine to redefine the guitar solo for the 21st-century, David Gilmour's greatest solo was the reference. The catch? No pentatonic minor blues. It was to be comfortably new

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“It’s a $20 plugin…I love it because sometimes the problem with digital sounds is they just lack a little bit of character”: Steven Wilson reveals his favourite plugin is a lo-fi cassette emulator and it is on all the guitars on his latest prog epic

And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?

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“I love the guitar, but essentially it’s an instrument that belongs to the 20th century in many ways. So it’s a question of, what can you do to try to reinvent that vocabulary to make it seem relevant?”: Steven Wilson on the making of a cosmic prog epic

Wilson's new album is unlike anything he’s done before, a very proggy space odyssey that takes the listener on a journey totheouterreaches of the universe…

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“The effect is overwhelming, in the best possible way”: Steven Wilson delivers a masterclass in interstellar prog at his first solo show in six years

Steven Wilson kicked off his first solo tour in six years in Stockholm last night. We were there

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“A lot of old-school guitar players can play amazing. But sometimes they’re not so innovative with the actual sound”: Steven Wilson on why guitarists need to switch up their tones to prevent their solos sounding stale

Alongside guitarist Randy McStine, the musical polymath took a tone-first approach to composing – and playing – solos on his new album, The Overview

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“Once you realise your existence is futile and life is a random gift, you think, ‘I’m going to make the most of it.’ Life is meaningless – so embrace it”: Steven Wilson looks back at Planet Earth

His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death”

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Cool new proggy sounds from Nad Sylvan, Bjørn Riis, McStine & Minnemann and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Ace new prog you must hear from Glass Hammer, Ash Twin Project, Whimsical Creature and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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“It’s an old-fashioned piece of conceptual rock”: Steven Wilson issues album update and promises no less than the reinvention of the “extended classic rock solo”

The prog visionary says Randy McStine's solo is one of the highlights of an album that's animated by a grand musical ambition in the vein of Mike Oldfield and Pink Floyd

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“I said, ‘We’re going to reinvent the notion of the extended classic rock solo. This is going to be the “not Comfortably Numb” solo’”: Steven Wilson bringing back the long guitar solo – with a twist

Wilson's eight studio album promises to be “an old-fashioned piece of conceptual rock in the tradition of The Dark Side of the Moon and Tubular Bells”

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Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from McStine & Minnemann, Gleb Kolyadin, Marko Hietala and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog to enjoy from Phase Transition, you, infinite, Pale Epiphany and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

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Steven Wilson announces first full-band North American solo tour for seven years

Steven Wilson will release The Overview, a concept album featuring two long-form pieces of music, on March 14

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Cool new proggy sounds from Frost*, Dim Gray, Klone and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog to enjoy from Penelope Trappes, Mission Jupiter, Liquid Bear and more...

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“This album is about letting the song dictate when it needs something and when it doesn’t”: With her perfect new line-up, Jane Getter takes her jazz-prog back to basics

With Steven Wilson as an influence, Division World features tracks that might not change the world – but may help you feel better about the way it is

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How Jethro Tull broke America is the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Big Big Train

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Iamthemorning announce live show with Randy McStine as support

Chamber prog duo Iamthemorning will play London's Piano Smithfield in February

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Jane Getter to release new studio album Division World

US prog guitarist Jane Getter will release her latest album Division World in February

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Porcupine Tree live guitarist Randy McStine hits back at fan complaints

Porcupine Tree fans complain after bassist Nate Navarro returns home for family reasons

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