Steven Wilson announces Requiem For A Village, pairing a new title track with an intentionally imperfect analogue approach

Steven Wilson announced Requiem For A Village on September 11, setting a November 6 release through Fiction Records and releasing the title track alongside the first Village Hall Session. The record follows The Overview but turns away from its cosmic scale toward an imagined British village and a deliberately tactile recording process.

Wilson says he wanted music where the human marks remain audible. The sessions leaned on analogue synthesizers, imperfect tuning and instruments he does not normally play, rather than smoothing everything into precision with software. For guitar-minded listeners, that production philosophy is as interesting as the prog pedigree: it puts physical performance, texture and mistakes back at the center of a modern studio album.

The album runs 12 tracks and will appear on CD, Blu-ray, multiple vinyl editions and a box set. The title track is already available, giving the announcement a concrete musical component rather than functioning only as a pre-order reveal.