STEVEN WILSON · The Future Bites (Limited) | CD

Jewel case CD. Limited edition Issued in an all white jewel case, with printed title stylized as 5T3V3NW1L50NTH34UTUR381T35, housed in an O-card with 16 pages booklet.

Background information about 'The Future Bites (Limited)'

Steven Wilson has never been a man content to sit still, and "The Future Bites" is the sound of him sprinting headfirst into the neon-lit unknown. Gone are the sprawling prog epics and the weeping mellotrons; in their place comes a sleek, chrome-plated pop record obsessed with consumerism, algorithms, self-optimisation and the strange emptiness of having everything you could ever want delivered to your door by tomorrow. It is a record that hums with nervous energy, all clipped electronic pulses, icy synths and grooves that feel engineered rather than played — and somehow that is exactly the point.

What makes it such a thrill is how Wilson refuses to play the grumpy purist. He leans into the artifice, wraps his unmistakable voice around hooks that lodge themselves in your skull, and lets guests like Elton John and the legendary Richard Barbieri-era textures shimmer through the mix. Tracks like the sardonic opener and the hypnotic "Personal Shopper" skewer our appetite for more while being dangerously, irresistibly catchy themselves. It is a pop album made by a man who has spent decades dismantling pop, and that tension is what keeps you coming back. Play it loud, play it on repeat, and then go delete your shopping app.

For fans of: Porcupine Tree, Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk, No-Man, Tears for Fears

Track listing

1. Unself
2. Self
3. King Ghost
4. 12 Things I Forgot
5. Eminent Sleaze
6. Man Of The People
7. Personal Shopper
8. Follower
9. Count Of Unease

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