Feel The Love

“The band meant a great deal to me and to Steven. It’s one of the reasons we’ve continued to work and never thrown it away.”

It’s been 11 years since the duo of Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson released their last album under the No-Man banner. In that same year, Wilson released Insurgentes, his first solo statement and the doorway into a whole new career.

Since then there’s been a smattering of No-Man live shows and a concert DVD, but no new material, mainly due to scheduling reasons.

“When we did the tour in 2012, we created this quite distinctive variation on what No-Man did,” Bowness explains. “It was a much harder rock sound, but it was also much more influenced by classical minimalism, so we almost had this post-rock-meets-minimalist sound.

“I wrote a few pieces that accentuated that and took them to Steven in 2013. At the time, Steven said he was far too busy with his own solo work and said: ‘I reckon you should take those pieces and that should become and it became .”