New boxset in February 2023: "Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979–89"

Steven Wilson has curated a new boxset, selecting 58 tracks from his formative years. Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979–89:

This is my personally-curated attempt to redress the balance, and to perhaps introduce any 1980s-sceptics out there to the idea that conceptual thinking and ambition didn’t suddenly evaporate after 1977. Ambitious, weird and thrilling music was all around you in the 1980s - if you looked in the right places.

Propaganda: "The Eight Testaments of Propaganda" for Record Store Day

German synth pop Propaganda were a one-album hit wonder. A Secret Wish, originally released in 1985, spawned a few hitsingles and an endless stream of remixes, covers, outtakes and live tracks on 12", EP, 7" and whatnot. The Eight Testaments of Propaganda. a comprehensive 4LP box set rounds most of this up for a special release on Record Store Day.