I DIDN'T KNOW HE MADE MUSIC LIKE THIS // Steven Wilson - Home Invasion / Regret #9 // Reaction 

This song would make a ton more sense in album context, specially those lines from the verses that make little sense. This is part of a concept album you've already checked another track from (Routine). Honestly, I'd say if you ever check any Steven Wilson album, this should be it. Everyone has their opinion about which one might be the best, but imo no album encapsulates his craft and influences better than this one. Hand. Cannot. Erase. (that's the album) has everything, the atmospheric electronics, the emotional ballads, the dark synths, the progginess and tight musicianship, the pop sensibilities, even the metal sections from later PT. And it's also a perfect execution of concept imo. Loosely based on the real life story of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who was found dead on her apartment, three years after disappearing from everyone in her life without anyone noticing. Their own neighbours didn't realize as all services on her apartment kept on being debited from her bank account. It was when police went to force her out of her place for unpaid rent that they found her. The album doesn't exactly follow the story but it takes inspiration from it, narrating the progressive distancing and strangement that the protagonist experiences from family, friends, lovers, and ultimately every other single person. Also, this song is actually two different tracks, so the purely instrumental section in 3/4 is actually the Regret #9 section. Regret is one of the main themes of the album, as well as loneliness and coping with loss, aging and mortality. But it's all beautifully done imo!

If I recall, Marco Minneman was on drums and Guthrie Govan on guitar. He assembles personnel based on the album, so he doesn’t play everything. Thanks for the review! I’m not great with lyrics, but maybe the home is being invaded by the internet and the constructed world we use it to build.

The Keyboardist is from Miles Davis"s Elektrik Band.. Adam Holtzman

You need to check out his albums, "Grace for Drowning," as well as " The Raven Refused to Sing ", you will not be disappointed. Regret #9 has some of Rick Wakeman's Moog Synthesizer touches. Thanks for sharing this treasure piece of music.

Sir Nick Beggs on Chapman stick. I saw Steven with the full recording band play this live in 2015 (and a few times since with some different band members) - an epic funky psychedelic spacey masterpiece with one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

I remember a few weeks ago looking at the google sheet and thinking it was crazy that nobody had requested this song at that point. So... finally!

Guthrie Govans solo in Regret #9 is brilliant. All improvised and done on 1 take.

Bass is played on a chapman stick

Yeah, you should definitely do yourself a favor and check out this album in its entirety, it is an absolute masterpiece.

While you're talking about Timing and Rhythms, I just feel pure emotion...

Steven Wilson did some Djenting with Porcupine Tree in the song Circle of Manias. Literally Djent

The guy's made 'only' 7 official solo studio LPs. If you count all of the LPs in his discography, it'll be around 50, I think (and a few EPs). But it's all very different, and I haven't met many people who would be into _all_ of his works. There are early demos, cover song collections, techno, abrasive drone, pop rock, krautrock albums - all sorts of stuff. So just SW or PT studio releases might be enough. For start. 🙂

Did you not? then wake up! 'Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" Fire.

This album is a masterpiece.

The instrument you can't place is a banjo.

"Man, what's going on there?" Answer: Guthrie Govan. (You know him from The Aristocrats as well as Marco Minnemann on drums)

The live version of this from Home Invasion (2018) is better IMO. They killed it!👏🧝

This is Wilson's "Young Lust"

The whole album is a masterpiece. The "chorus" sections of Home Invasion remind me of Alan Parsons Project, in a great way.

The keybord part that starts at 3:48 it's almost identical to the part in Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part VI-IX. Amazing

This album is a blast. Listen to it in it's entirety.

Steven Wilson is a case study in everything wrong with music. I fist came across him in the 90s as he was dipping his toes in the world of really really embarassingly bad hippy-BS trance music. HORRIFIC, and most of what I've heard him do is much worse.

The biggest disappointment of the year 🤮🤢