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Manic Street Preachers have released a new remix of Steven Wilson’s track ‘Economies of Scale’ - listen to the new version below. 

The song originally appears on the Drawing heavily on electronics, the progressive wizard dived into his love of those lavish disco remixes, pioneered by the likes of Giorgio Moroder. Album highlight Personal Shopper was a tour de force, and it features the musicianship of Elton John. Nile Rodgers has stepped in to remix the track, adding his distinctive Chic-esque guitar before morphing the song into a quite distinct shape. Adding a touch to New York to the Euro-centric production, its a dazz...

Former Porcupine Tree man Steven Wilson excels his ambitions on solo album number six… Words: James Hickie If you want an insight into why The Future Bites sounds the way it does, look no further than the album’s fourth track, 12 THINGS I FORGOT, and the lyric, ​‘ I just sit in the corner complaining / Making out things were best in the eighties’. We can’t attest to Steven Wilson​’s status as a curmudgeon – he’s always seemed a jolly nice bloke to us – but he’s cert...

/ 28 January 2021 1849 Views Expecting the unexpected has been the listener’s default position since Steven Wilson called time on Porcupine Tree and embarked on an increasingly storied solo career. Since 2008’s eclectic debut Insurgentes, he’s done a jazz-inflected opus (Grace For Drowning), indulged his love of classic prog (The Raven That Refused To Sing) and inched ever closer to the mainstream via the poignant Hand. Cannot. Erase. and the eminently accessible To The B...