{"id":10076,"date":"2016-02-17T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T05:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10076"},"modified":"2016-01-06T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:01:22","slug":"album-mini-review-steven-wilson-4-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/17\/album-mini-review-steven-wilson-4-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Steven Wilson &#8212; 4 1\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10077\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steven_wilson_45.jpg\" alt=\"steven_wilson_45\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steven_wilson_45.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steven_wilson_45-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steven_wilson_45-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B017OJG1I4&amp;asins=B017OJG1I4&amp;linkId=2PLWI7NDMJENS7NM&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File Next to: <strong>Radiohead<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/27\/opeth-mixing-metal-and-melodicism\/\"><strong>Opeth<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/28\/two-years-of-musoscribe-steven-wilson\/\">Steven Wilson<\/a><\/strong> is possibly the busiest musician of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. Beyond his leadership of the now on-hiatus <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/02\/interview-steven-wilson-of-porcupine-tree-do-what-you-love-and-the-fans-will-follow\/\">Porcupine Tree<\/a><\/strong>, he&#8217;s recorded and\/or toured as (or as part of) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/album-review-blackfield-welcome-to-my-dna\/\"><strong>Blackfield<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/19\/dvd-review-no-man-mixtaped\/\">No-man<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Bass Communion<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Storm Corrosion<\/strong>, and <strong>I.E.M.<\/strong> His remix work has improved on the already superb back catalogs of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/24\/interview-steven-wilson-on-the-king-crimson-40th-anniversary-reissue-project\/\">King Crimson<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/21\/album-review-caravan-recorded-live-in-concert-at-metropolis-studios-london\/\"><strong>Caravan<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/26\/album-review-jethro-tull-warchild-40th-anniversary-theatre-edition\/\">Jethro Tull<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/05\/yes-a-history-of-perpetual-change\/\"><strong>Yes<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9873\">Gentle Giant<\/a><\/strong>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/album-review-the-dukes-of-stratosphear-the-complete-and-utter-dukes\/\"><strong>XTC<\/strong><\/a>. Somehow he&#8217;s found time for a solo career. His four solo albums demonstrate his facility at various genres (prog, jazz, metal), combined with instincts of a top-notch pop songwriter. The 37-minute *<i>4 \u00bd<\/i> is billed as an EP, but deserves consideration as a full-fledged album. \u201cMy Book of Regrets\u201d is as tuneful as anything he&#8217;s ever written, and the other five tunes \u2013 including a remake of Porcupine Tree&#8217;s \u201cDon&#8217;t Hate Me\u201d \u2013 are showcases for Wilson&#8217;s deft blend of melodicism, muscle, and melancholy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Radiohead, Opeth, Peter Gabriel Steven Wilson is possibly the busiest musician of the 21st century. Beyond his leadership of the now on-hiatus Porcupine Tree, he&#8217;s recorded and\/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,56,62],"tags":[1718,2059],"class_list":["post-10076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-prog","category-rawk","tag-porcupine-tree","tag-steven-wilson","cat-49-id","cat-56-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}