Watch Steven Wilson’s mesmerising Song Of I video

teven Wilson has released a video for his new track Song Of I. It features on his upcoming album To The Bone which will launch on August 18 via Caroline International.

Speaking with Billboard, Wilson says the new song deals with love and emotional obsession and a “refusal to let go of something that clearly isn't bringing any happiness.”

He adds: “It's not strictly autobiographical. Mainly, I like to tell stories. But I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.”

Song Of I features guest vocals from Sophie Hunger while performance artist Maya Petrovna appears in the mesmerising video.

Wilson continues: “I happened across some amazing images and film of the performance artist Maya Petrovna and asked her if she would be interested in working on it.

“I thought it could work well to illustrate the song as some form of highly stylised drama, maybe somewhere between choreography and soap opera.”

Wilson says that Hunger has a “sexy-sinister” quality to her vocals and adds that Song Of I “seems on the surface like a love song” and that he “also wanted a glacial coldness in the vocals and music to hint at the destructive side of love.”

Wilson will head out on tour in support of To The Bone from early 2018.

Roman P-V - 2017-06-14 09:37:58