Here’s the official press release:

Steven Wilson has announced details of To The Bone – his expansive, brilliant fifth album – and a major 2018 UK tour including a return to one of the country’s most iconic venues, the Royal Albert Hall. Pre-order the album here.

A gloriously dynamic modernist pop record as imagined by the UK’s biggest underground artist,

To The Bone is released August 18^th via Caroline International on CD / 2 x 12” / Blu-Ray / super deluxe box set and all digital platforms.

Fusing driving futurist rock and spectral electronics to elegiac hyper-space ambience and dizzying, squalling guitars, To The Bone is Steven Wilson’s hat-tip to the hugely ambitious progressive pop records of his youth (think Peter Gabriel’s So, Talk Talk’s Colour of Spring, Tears for Fears Seeds of Love).

Lyrically, the album’s eleven tracks veer from the paranoid chaos of the post-truth era and the creeping self-loathing of the technology age to steely fly-on-the-wall observations of the everyday lives of religious fundamentalists with a welcome shot or two of wide-eyed escapism. Sonically and melodically stunning, To The Bone is a high definition snapshot of the disconcerting times we live in.

The follow up to 2015’s Hand. Cannot. Erase. (“a smart, soulful and immersive work of art” the Guardian 5*), To The Bone is Steven Wilson’s first album since signing with Caroline International (Iggy Pop, Underworld, Thurston Moore, Glass Animals). Formerly the founder and mainstay of outsider rock band Porcupine Tree, Steven released his first record under his own name – Insurgentes – in 2008. He has been resolutely independent throughout a three-decade career that’s made him the most successful British artist you’ve never heard of.

Steven Wilson has announced details of a huge global tour that takes in over one hundred shows across all five continents including a 25 date US tour that sees him return to the renowned Beacon Theatre, NY after last year’s sell out there. His European dates are:

Wed 31^st Jan              Portugal, Lisbon, Sala Tejo at the MEO Arena

Thu 1^st Feb                Spain, Madrid, Wiznik Centre

Sat 3^rd Feb                  Spain, Barcelona, L’Auditori

Sun 4^th Feb                France, Marseille, Silo

Tue 6^th Feb                France, Lyon, Le Transbordeur

Wed 7^th Feb               Switzerland, Zurich, Halle 622

Fri 9^th Feb                  Italy, Milan, Teatro Degli Arcimboldi

Sat 10^th Feb               Italy, Rome, Atlantico

Mon 12^th Feb             Germany, Frankfurt, Alte Oper

Tue 13^th Feb              Germany, Ravensburg, Oberachwabenhalle

Wed 14^th Feb             Austria, Vienna, Gasometer

Thu 15^th Feb              Germany, Berlin, Admiralpalast

Sat 17^th Feb               Poland, Zabrze, House of Music and Dance

Sun 18^th Feb              Poland, Poznan, Earth Hall

Tue 20^th Feb              Germany, Hamburg, Mehr Theatre

Sat 24^th Feb              Finland, Helsinki, The Circus

Mon 26^th Feb             Sweden, Stockholm, Cirkus

Tue 27^th Feb              Norway, Oslo, Oslo Concert House

Wed 28^th Feb             Norway, Bergen, USF Verftet

Thu 1^st Mar                Norway, Stavanger, Konserthuset – Zetlitz

Sat 3^rd Mar                Denmark, Copenhagen, Vega Main Hall

Mon 5^th Mar               Germany, Essen, Colosseum

Wed 7^th Mar             The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall

Fri 9^th Mar                  Belgium, Brussels, AB

Sat 10^th Mar               Luxembourg, Rockhal Club

Mon 12^th Mar           France, Paris, The Olympia

Tue 13^th Mar            France, Lille, Theatre Sebastopol

Sat 17^th Mar             Belfast Mandela Hall

Mon 19^th Mar           Dublin Olympia Theatre

Wed 21^st Mar           Cardiff St David’s Hall

Thu 22^nd Mar           Birmingham Symphony Hall

Sat 24^th Mar              Glasgow Clyde Auditorium

Sun 25^th Mar             Gateshead Sage 1

Tue 27^th Mar             London Royal Albert Hall

Sat 31^st Mar             Manchester Bridgewater Hall

Tickets for the UK tour are on sale from 10am Friday 12^th May (with a fan only pre-sale on Wednesday 10^th May).

To The Bone tracklisting:

1. To The Bone
2. Nowhere Now
3. Pariah
4. The Same Asylum As Before
5. Refuge
6. Permanating
7. Blank Tapes
8. People Who Eat Darkness
9. Song of I
10. Detonation
11. Song of Unborn

The super deluxe box set features the album, a CD of outtakes and demos, a Blu Ray, a DVD, a fully illustrated book and a one-sided 7” single featuring non-album track.

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