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Louder's writers pick their 10 favourite albums of 2023

Our staff and contributors individually pick the 10 albums that have shaped their year

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"I didn’t think I had it in me." Steven Wilson has released a surprise Christmas song after an unlikely challenge from a friend

You can listen to Steven Wilson's new AI-boosted seasonal offering December Skies here

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“I’m not going to say it’s a masterpiece, but it is a beautiful and a totally worthwhile entry in the Pink Floyd canon”: The highs and lows of Richard Wright’s limited solo work

One of the quietest ‘quiet ones’ in music released just two solo albums and one collaboration, preferring to go sailing instead – and it’s unlikely there’s more to be found

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“The albums I love the most were the ones where I wasn’t sure what I was listening to… There’s something great about music that’s beyond easy description or categorisation”: Steven Wilson gets it if you don’t get The Harmony Codex at first

He’s not out to mislead or deceive with his seventh solo album, but admits: “You can look for explanation, you can look for logic, but it’s not there”

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King Crimson and Can were among their go-to inspirations – but in the new romantic era, Talk Talk couldn’t admit it

Steve Hogarth, Tim Bowness, Richard Barbieri and others speak up for the band’s prog credentials

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Manic Street Preachers remix Steven Wilson's Economies of Scale

Steven Wilson recently released his seventh studio album The Harmony Codex

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“I met a gorgeous Steven Wilson fan. I then introduced her to my girlfriend… the story is told in my song Beautiful Night”: Franck Carducci’s life in prog

Leader of the Fantastic Squad on moonrise during a Roger Waters show, receiving a career kickstart at his favourite venue, and why Paul McCartney is his prog hero

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Yes Album remix proves prog rock mastery

Steven Wilson "spatializes" the original 1971 LP's song cycle, letting the band's musicianship soar

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"Where all this repackaging and repurposing is headed is anyone's guess, but we're surely beyond the point of diminishing returns": The Yes Album (Super Deluxe Edition)

Yes's breakthrough album has been effectively re-repackaged, again: there's plenty of greatness included, but when is enough enough?

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"Let's give them a record that they can lose themselves in": Steven Wilson doesn't think rock belongs in 2023 but he'll still try and make that million-seller

Steven Wilson is the renaissance man of modern prog. He’s also something of an enigma, and new album The Harmony Codex is as enigmatic as anything he's made

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Mikael Åkerfeldt reflects on Opeth's Damnation album: “Maybe we helped show people that experimentation isn’t necessarily a horrible thing – you should take your guard down when it comes to creativity”

Ahead of the reissue to mark its 20th anniversary, the Swedish band's 'mellow' album is rightly remembered as a brave and successful step forwards: “It was like starting from scratch with lots of experience and no distortion!” its mastermind tells us

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Opeth share previously 'lost' video for Windowpane

Opeth's 2003 album Damnation to be reissued on deluxe vinyl in December

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Steven Wilson shares "gothic horror story" video for Beautiful Scarecrow

Steven Wilson recently released his seventh studio album The Harmony Codex

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“Rock is the cult music of the 21st century, in the same way that jazz became a cult. Maybe that’s not a bad thing”: Steven Wilson says the days of rock bands selling a million records are over

Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson has a controversial view of rock’s place in the scheme of things in 2023

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“The perception of what kind of band you are can count for so much… The hard lesson to learn is that the quality of the music counts for very little”: Steven Wilson on Porcupine Tree’s slow rise to success

After a 20-year struggle to secure their status, the band leader looked back on what it took to score a top 30 album

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The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history

From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater

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The PTV Playlist: Here Are The Best New Albums To Get Immediately Around Your Ear Holes

Welcome to our first PTV Playlist, where we'll be slinging you some of our favourite albums from each month that you should give a go.

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Has Steven Wilson's remix of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time become the definitive version?

Steven Wilson's version of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time gets a vinyl release. Can we let him have a go at Hall Of The Mountain Grill too?

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Steven Wilson shares first music from The Harmony Codex. Watch the video for Economies Of Scale here

Steven Wilson will release new album The Harmony Codex on September 29

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From underground trailblazing to commercial success: Ultravox's Quartet saw George Martin take them further into the mainstream – but at what cost?

Ultravox – Quartet (Deluxe Edition): Steven Wilson burnishes art-poppers’ watershed 1982 album

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40-odd years on, Gentle Giant's 1976 album Interview remains an object lesson in risk-taking

Gentle Giant's 1976 album In'terview (2023 Steven Wilson remix) – reviewed

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“It suddenly made me feel so mature. I remember getting the shivers! It was not death metal”: How Jimmy Page, Stevie Wonder, Grand Theft Auto III and Steven Wilson helped Opeth become modern-day prog icons

20 years on, Mikael Åkerfeldt looks back at Opeth’s evolution from death metal heavyweights to prog mainstays on landmark 2003 album Damnation

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"It’s my songs with the sound and vision of Steven Wilson”. Aviv Geffen on the making of Blackfield IV

Despite announcing he was stepping back, Steven Wilson was alongside Aviv Geffen for 2013's fourth Blackfield album, along with some new faces too!

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“If they had the flares and beards and the record was from 1971 or 1972, that was what I wanted… records that looked odd and I could afford”: How Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt discovered prog

From extreme metal to Camel and Genesis to collaboration with Steven Wilson, the Swedish musician's career is surely one of the most progressive

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King Crimson announce 50th anniversary issue of Larks Tongues In Aspic

The new Larks Tongues In Aspic reissue features new 2023 Steven Wilson remixes and will be released in October

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