18 March 2025: Steven Wilson "The Overview"; Markus Reuter "Aurora Drift"; Nerthus "The Path of the Elder Ones"

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Steven Wilson releases his eighth studio album, The Overview, on Fiction Records on 14th March 2025. The two track, forty-two-minute​ album is his most audacious to date, inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space.

The Overview sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases. The two wildly ambitious tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Wilson’s 21st-century progressive music updates the classic ‘prog’ musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, which brings the genre right into the beating heart of the current musical landscape.

The album also features a set of lyrics by XTC’s Andy Partridge that help drive the story in “Objects Outlive Us”.

The Overview is instantly recognisable as Steven Wilson and will stand alone as an utterly unique release for 2025. Headphones and a wide-open mind are recommended.

TRACKLIST

1. OBJECTS OUTLIVE US (23.17)
● No Monkey’s Paw
● The Buddha Of The Modern Age
● Objects: Meanwhile
● The Cicerones
● Ark
● Cosmic Sons Of Toil
● No Ghost On The Moor
● Heat Death Of The Universe

2. THE OVERVIEW (18.27)
● Perspective
● A Beautiful Infinity I
● Borrowed Atoms
● A Beautiful Infinity II
● Infinity Measured In Moments
● Permanence



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Click here to see the videos for Volumes 1-6: shorturl.at/L0ddJ

This is Vol. 7, "Aurora Drift":

"Where is this place? This temple? This ancient choir? These memories, faces, beings? What is this magic? This spell? The cast is strong, hypnotic, and then it ends as mysteriously as it began..."
(midKnight_Muse)

"Stream for Consciousness" is a concept born from experimenting with various ways to create ethereal ambient soundscapes, targeting different moods and uses. Whether it be for meditation, relieving anxiety, music to sleep or study to, this project aims to create music to ease you into reaching a conscious state, through carefully crafted melodic pieces.

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released February 21, 2025

Composed and played by Markus Reuter
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Erik Emil Eskildsen
Produced by Markus Reuter and Erik Emil Eskildsen

Markus plays Touch Guitars® AU8

Special thanks to Lindsay Jones

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"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." – The Call of Cthulhu.


Highly recommended for lovers of Lustmord, Schloss Tegal and early productions from Cold Meat Industry.

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FreeForm thanks Raffaele Pezzella for a complimentary copy of this release.

released December 27, 2024

REVIEWS

Avant Music News
avantmusicnews.com/2024/12/22/amn-reviews-nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-2024-eighth-tower-records

Igloo Magazine
igloomag.com/reviews/nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-eighth-tower

Ver Sacrum
www.versacrum.com/vs/2025/01/nerthus-the-path-of-the-elder-ones-dei-nerthus.html

Luminous Dash
luminousdash.be/reviews/nerthus-the-path-of-the-older-ones-eight-tower

This Is Darkness
’m a huge fan of all things Lovecraftian, so I was thrilled when I discovered that the ever awesome Eighth Tower Records were releasing this dark ambient / post-industrial album from Nerthus. With eerie, otherworldly tracks full of dark menacing soundscapes and creepy field recordings, this is a wonderfully dark album that does an amazing job of capturing the essential essence of the Lovecraft mythos. Fantastic!



Published by Eighth Tower Records.
Music and Mastering by Nerthus.
Artwork by Nerthus.
Layout by Matteo Mariano.
Cat. Num. ETR054.
© 2024. All rights reserved.

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