New releases last eight weeks: Progressive Rock

Review: English musician Steven Wilson, known primarily as the founding member of the band Porcupine Tree, shares the mint vinyl gatefold edition of his latest album: a literal musical overview of the prog rock genre which made him famous. Composed of just two wildly ambitious 20-minute suites, 'Objects Outlive Us' and 'The Overview', Wilson's distinctively guitar-led, lurchy solos and gargantuan progressive highs aim to evoke the so-called "overview effect", whereby astronauts seeing the Earth from space undergo a transformative cognitive shift, experiencing an overwhelming appreciation of beauty and an increased sense of connection to other people. Through such themes of magnitude and cosmic expanse, Wilson takes a valiant arm to the bridge here, facing the universe's cold indifference as an avenue to radical empathy.