“Il mio quinto album è ispirato in molti modi da alcuni degli ambiziosi album progressive pop che ho amato nella mia giovinezza come So di Peter Gabriel, Hounds of Love di Kate Bush, Colour of Spring dei Talk Talk e Seeds of Love dei Tears for Fears. Liricamente le undici tracce del’album si muovono dal caos paranoico dell’era in cui la verità può essere conderata un concetto flessibile, alle osservazioni sulla vita quotidiana dei rifugiati, dei terroristi e dei fondamentalisti religiosi. Una serie di tematiche per tutta la famiglia!” – Steven Wilson
L’album ha raggiunto la posizione numero 3 della classifica inglese degli album superato soltanto da Ed Sheeran ed Elvis Presley.
- To The Bone
- Nowhere Now
- Pariah
- The Same Asylum As Before
- Refuge
- Permanating
- Blank Tapes
- People Who Eat Darkness
- Song of I
- Detonation
- Song of Unborn
Steven Wilson – vocals (all tracks), guitars (all tracks except track 9), bass guitar (tracks 1–3, 5, 8 and 11), keyboards (all tracks),
Ninet Tayeb – vocals (tracks 3, 7 and 8), backing vocals (tracks 1, 4 and 6)
Adam Holzman – piano (all tracks except track 8), clavinet (track 1), organ (tracks 1, 2, 5 and 6), Solina strings (tracks 5 and 10)
David Kollar – guitars (tracks 9 and 10)
Paul Stacey – guitar solo (track 5)
Nick Beggs – bass (track 6 and 9)
Robin Mullarkey – bass (tracks 4 and 10)
Craig Blundell – drums (tracks 3, 8, 9 and 11)
Jeremy Stacey – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4-6 and 10)
Pete Eckford – percussion (tracks 1, 2, 6, 8 and 10)
Mark Feltham – harmonica (tracks 1 and 5)
Dave Stewart – string arrangements (tracks 2, 4, 9, 10 and 11)
The London Session Orchestra – strings (tracks 4, 9, 10 and 11)
Sophie Hunger – vocals (track 9)
David Kilminster – backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4 and 11)
Jasmine Walkes – spoken word (track 1)
Synergy Vocals – choir (track 11)
Paul Draper – sequencer (track 1)
