PORCUPINE TREE's STEVEN WILSON Talks New Solo Album - "A Lot Of Metal Is Not Really Very Heavy At The End Of The Day"
July 29, 2011, 13 years ago
Attention Deficit Delirium recently heard the new solo album from PORCUPINE TREE's STEVEN WILSON, entitled Grace For Drowning, and chatted with him afterward.
When told that the album's heaviness came in a different fashion than his recent metal overtones, Wilson had this to say:
"I think [with] the metal thing for me, the party's over. I'm kind of bored with it. It's interesting that you mention UNIVERS ZERO, because that's a band that creates heavy music with acoustic instruments. It's really heavy, it's not pretend heavy. A lot of metal is not really very heavy at the end of the day because it's very textured music; but really dark [non-metal] music [can be], things like Univers Zero, ART ZOYD and early KING CRIMSON with a lot of woodwinds. The guitar really is not the instrument creating the heaviness on this [solo] record. There's very little guitar on it at all. There's a lot of keyboards, woodwinds, percussion, drums, choir and orchestra - there's a very wide palette of sounds on this record, but the overall feeling is one of darkness for sure. I suppose that does come from the Crimson thing. Insurgenteswas very much routed in my love of '80s post-punk music, which is what I was listening when I was making that record - JOY DIVISION, THE CURE, COCTEAU TWINS. This record is completely coming from my love of early '70s progressive music, but particularly the fusion of rock music and jazz music. The important thing about this record is that it's jazz musicians largely playing rock music."Read more at this location.
