Storm Corrosion, the prog rock project that unites Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, etc. fame with Opeth vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt, have been working on a long-awaited follow-up to their self-titled 2012 debut album. Wilson recently spoke of where that project is headed in a new chat with Innerviews. Wilson said of what to expect from this sophomore effort:
“It’s very different, but also you will recognize the aesthetic, shall we say. I don’t wanna say too much about it, ’cause we’ve still got a long way to go on it. It’s a massive chunk of music, and it’s almost entirely played on acoustic instruments. But a lot of them.”
He went on to add:
“We were talking earlier about my [upcoming] solo album [‘Requiem For A Village‘] being a lot of it playing instruments, approaching instruments in a kind of idiot savant way. There’s a lot of that on Storm Corrosion as well.
It’s funny, I saw a couple of people reviewing the, the playback events we did for ‘Requiem For A Village‘, and more than a few of them mentioned how it reminded them a little bit of the Storm Corrosion record — the first one, of course, they would’ve been referring to. And I think there is a little bit of that in ‘Requiem For A Village‘. So it’s definitely continuing on the vocabulary that we created with the first [Storm Corrosion] record, but it’s also very different, if that’s not a contradiction in terms. And we wouldn’t do it otherwise.”
2024 saw Storm Corrosion‘s self-titled outing receive an expanded reissue.
[via Blabbermouth.net]
