photo: Kevin Westenberg
Anil Prasad interviewed Steven Wilson about his new album Requiem for a Village for his Innerviews website. They also talk about his work with No-Man, Porcupine Tree and Storm Corrosion, and his work as a sought-after ATMOS mixer. His love for folk horror, under the influence of British TV shows he watched as a kid, is all over his new album:
This idea is very relevant in the age of social media because this community is relatively cut off. It’s not part of the digital highway. These people are very insular. That’s the great thing about folk horror—the idea of going into a community that’s idyllic on the surface, but there’s something very perverse, peculiar, and eccentric underneath. Some might say pagan. The idea of having your own religious beliefs, which have no bearing on the rest of the world, is at the heart of a lot of folk horror.
If you analyze my whole catalog, there are certain themes I’ve come back to time and time again. One is the idea of the Internet and the digital world eroding our personality, uniqueness, and our sense of insular otherness. But I think you can still find it in the US and UK by just driving off the highway and into the countryside. You’ll come across little villages, of which there are thousands in the UK. They’ll have one pub and corner shop, and it’s almost like time has forgotten them and left them behind.
I’m taking a village that is very cut off and examining it from the point of view of people that are not affected by the outside world. And if you visit from the outside, you’re greeted with incredible suspicion and you might feel very uncomfortable, because their experience doesn’t quite tally with your perspective on life and the world.
Requiem for a Village is available for pre-order in a wealth of formats. Release date: November 6th.
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