Steven Wilson Presents / Various

Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue-Progressive Sounds In Uk Alternative Music 1979-89 (2xLP)

Release date: February 10, 2023

Various black;

Label: Demon Records

Demon Records is proud to release Intrigue - Steve Wilson Presents: Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979-89, a new compilation assembled by acclaimed musician, singer songwriter, and record producer, Steven Wilson. • "This is my personally-curated attempt to redress the balance, and to perhaps introduce any '80s-sceptics out there to the idea that conceptual thinking and ambition didn't suddenly evaporate after '77... ambitious, weird and thrilling music was all around you in the '80s -if you looked in the right places." - Steven Wilson • Featuring 19 tracks, the collection explores the creativity, experimentation and progressive spirit of alternative British music from 1979-1989. Artists include XTC, The Stranglers, Ultravox, The Durutti Column, Cocteau Twins and many more. • Pressed on two 140g vinyl (mastered by Phil Kinrade and cut by Barry Grint at AIR Mastering) housed in printed inner sleeves and accompanied by a 12-page booklet with an introduction by Steven Wilson and extensive track-by-track liner notes by James Nice.

Tracklist:

1. A Better Home in the Phantom Zone - Bill Nelson's Red Noise
2. Back to Nature - Magazine
3. Complicated Game (Steven Wilson 2014 Mix) - XTC
4. The Raven - the Stranglers
5. Puppet Life - Punishment of Luxury
6. . Astradyne (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) - Ultravox
7. Sketch for Summer - the Durutti Column
8. Health and Efficiency - This Heat
9. Cognitive Dissonance (Steven Wilson 2022 Mix) - Robert Fripp and the League of Gentlemen
10. Three Dancers (Steven Wilson 2021 Mix) - Twelfth Night
11. Airwaves - Thomas Dolby
12. Knife Slits Water - a Certain Ratio
13. Donimo - Cocteau Twins
14. Beehead (7" Version) - Perennial Divide
15. No Motion - Dif Juz
16. Gutter Busting - Slab!
17. The Host of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
18. R.E.S. - Cardiacs
19. Night Sky, Sweet Earth - No-Man