Steven Wilson‘s 2023 piece, The Harmony Codex, didn’t quite work for us. And that came as a shock to some of the RMR crew over here. Because even the feisty and pop-laden The Future Bites managed to get into our good graces, and for cause. But it also garnered a lament of Wilson and others turning their mutual backs on prog.

Yet, in 2023, Wilson‘s latest piece of work felt like some very watery and – yes – boring material. Good for some background music in a bar, but not much more. Shocking indeed, for an