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THE FUTURE BITES

Gatefold

Steven Wilson Format: Vinyl
4.4 out of 5 stars 1,629 ratings
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Track Listings

1 Unself
2 Self
3 King Ghost
4 12 Things I Forgot
5 Eminent Sleaze
6 Personal Shopper

Product description

'The Future Bites' is an exploration of how the human brain has evolved in the Internet era. As well as being Wilson's phenomenal sixth album, it is also an online portal to a world of high concept design, custom built for the ultra-modern consumer. Where 2017's 'To the Bone' confronted the emerging global issues of post truth and fake news, 'The Future Bites' places the listener in a world of 21st century addictions. From out of control retail therapy, manipulative social media and the loss of individuality, 'The Future Bites' is less a bleak vision of an approaching dystopia, more a curious reading of the here and now.

Product details

  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 31.5 x 31.6 x 1.3 cm; 235.87 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ SW Records
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2020-06-12
  • Label ‏ : ‎ SW Records
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B085RQRRXB
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Best Sellers Rank: 98,789 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
  • Customer reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 1,629 ratings

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars
1,629 global ratings

Customers say

Customers praise this album for its amazing tracks and catchy melodies, with one review highlighting its ethereal chorus and funky proggy electronic moments. The electronic sound receives positive feedback, and customers appreciate the artist's talent, with one noting its progression in musical style. Customers find the album beautiful and consider it a worthwhile purchase at a bargain price.

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36 customers mention ‘Album quality’31 positive5 negative

Customers praise the album's quality, highlighting its amazing tracks and sublime sound, with one customer noting it improves with repeated listens.

"Excellent album - great songs with interesting lyrics, album theme and subtly different from his previous material...." Read more

"Fantastic album and looking forward to seeing him live again." Read more

"Good album." Read more

"The jury was out, now its in, fantastic album, the definition of progression" Read more

14 customers mention ‘Music quality’12 positive2 negative

Customers enjoy the music quality of the album, with its catchy melodies and ethereal choruses, and one customer describes it as beautiful and haunting synth pop.

"...I like - Personal Shopper , Follower and 12 Things I Forget - they are catchy , thought provoking and the sound of someone who refuses to be pigeon..." Read more

"...For instance, the fourth track, 12 Things I Forgot, boasts a catchy tune and a Pink Floyd style female chorus - something that reappears throughout..." Read more

"...Guitars are electric, melodies are catchy and songs are cleverly constructed. I am not sure why the PT fanboys are needlessly up-in-arms...." Read more

"...that explores another of his many faces, delving into beautiful and haunting synth pop songs with glorious arrangements with acute social and..." Read more

8 customers mention ‘Sound quality’7 positive1 negative

Customers love the electronic sound of the album, noting it sounds like a SW album, with one customer describing it as a beautifully ominous soundscape.

"...There seems to be more sheen and less mud than previous SW solo, sonically. Pristine bits. Spot effects...." Read more

"...I thought it was very good on first listen and definitely gets better on more listens...." Read more

"...The soundscape and production is amazing and will be ear candy to all of those listeners who are fortunate enough to possess decent hi fi set ups...." Read more

"...Again, Wilson’s falsetto is perfect for the beautifully ominous soundscape he has created...." Read more

8 customers mention ‘Talent’8 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the artist's talent, with one noting the progression of his musical style and another highlighting the solid songwriting throughout.

"Musicianship, production and songcraft at a totally elevated level." Read more

"...this man is a genius, very talented" Read more

"Inmy opinion his best solo work. So so good." Read more

"...Trees days through Storm Corrosion, Blackford, No Man and his wonderful solo career...." Read more

7 customers mention ‘Value for money’7 positive0 negative

Customers find the album to be a worthwhile purchase at a bargain price, with one customer noting it's a brilliant addition to Wilson's canon of works.

"...Still a couple of brilliant tracks make it a worthwhile purchase." Read more

"...Anyway after seeing it on offer at a bargain price i decided to bite and i'm glad i did, listening to the album as a whole makes much more sense and..." Read more

"...accesible track on the album all in all its a good album and worth the price paid not keen on the Disco tracks though ." Read more

"Worth it for 'Personal Shopper' alone (NB much more to the album than that, great though it is)...." Read more

5 customers mention ‘Aesthetics’5 positive0 negative

Customers find the album beautiful, with one customer specifically praising the Count of Unease track as blissfully beautiful.

"...These days it sounds more relevant, beautiful and resonates sonically even more too...." Read more

"...to be soulful and proggy at the same time, while Count Of Unease is blissfully beautiful, a languid reminder that Wilson is peerless at creating..." Read more

"...On another personal note (I'm far from a guru) I love the aesthetics of the whole package; album art, CD packaging and the album's theme...." Read more

"...Those who really give it a listen will find that the album is striking, original and a logical progression for Steven WIlson...." Read more

5 customers mention ‘Production quality’5 positive0 negative

Customers praise the album's production, with one describing it as a masterpiece and another noting its elevated songcraft.

"...A pretty solid effort and kudos to him for trying something different" Read more

"...This has a new production, due in part to David Kosten's co-production, perhaps...." Read more

"...this album is packed with very good songs and it's the outstanding production quality that makes it more re-listenable and raises the quality in the..." Read more

"Musicianship, production and songcraft at a totally elevated level." Read more

4 customers mention ‘Music style’4 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the music style of the album, with one describing it as the best modern prog inspired albums and another noting it's a rare thing in modern music.

"...In many ways this track is classic pop with a customary Wilsonian twist and one that lovers of the artist’s short and long-form styles should..." Read more

"...Love the electronic sound and synthesiser, sounds very fresh and modern...." Read more

"...as this is the same gentleman who bought you some of the best modern prog inspired albums like The Raven Who Refused To Sing and the excellent In..." Read more

"...The man is that rare thing in modern music, he follows his own path, without regard for commerciality or fame...." Read more

A brilliant, topical well recorded album
5 out of 5 stars
A brilliant, topical well recorded album
I really enjoyed this latest album from Steven Wilson, the content is so relevant to the Times we live in today. The Vinyl sounds amazing, really well recorded. I don't know what die hard Steven Wilson fans will make of this album but it's a five stars from me.
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  • ZeitGhoul (music is my sanctuary)
    5.0 out of 5 stars More a production masterpiece but also a musical one. The Future Bites back here...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2021
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    Update May 2021. Changed review to 5 stars. Future Bites has got its teeth into me....and grown into a whopper 5 stars of an album. Whilst my points below still stand, its the musicality that does in the end win you over. These days it sounds more relevant, beautiful and resonates sonically even more too. It is a candidate now for my album of the year and having heard some other artists cover similar territory subject matter wise recently, ....this is still the clear winner. Oh and it is a pop record.. not prog.....which I guess is part of the point.

    Original review nearer to original release....
    This is not a 'because it's Steven Wilson review', despite the 4 star appreciation. I tend only to review things I like unless I'm pretty disappointed in a favourite artist anyway. But for me I think Wilson deserves praise despite rumblings from corners of his prog rock/metal fan base....

    I really get it if styles of music are not your bag (or in them!!) I'm a pretty basic jazz fan for example and beyond the amazing Bitches Brew I do struggle....but sometimes it's just the right moment for music that comes out and I think Future Bites is one of these records....despite in an interview reminding us he delayed the album last year out of respect to the public ....he felt it was not the right time to release a culturally critical record when covid hit. He made the right call.

    But it is a good time for us to question our reliance on mass media as a form of expression...if like me you have always been uncomfortable with mobile phones, you know that immediate access to media is always going to have a massive affect on our behaviour....and that includes how we each in our way might feel an entitlement to a be part of the mass media machine....and the validation of it...

    Ironically, musically speaking there are some excellent funky proggy electronic moments scattered throughout this social commentary...not surprisingly as this is the same gentleman who bought you some of the best modern prog inspired albums like The Raven Who Refused To Sing and the excellent In Absentia with Porcupine Tree.

    Highlights for me are the haunting King Ghost and Self. I love Young Americans Bowie era feel to how the record starts.

    The album is shorter than you would expect but what you do get is full on excellent sound quality from the go ...I have not heard as surprisingly a clear sounding bit of production since I first heard Sea Change by Beck 20 years ago or so. I'd go as far as saying this album is packed with very good songs and it's the outstanding production quality that makes it more re-listenable and raises the quality in the end.

    The style/taste in the ears you often feel, is more electronic rock funk overall than Kid A era Radiohead for example, so the calm angry lyrical work by Steven and indeed Elton, is admittedly an uncomfortable match to some of the grooves and overall messages throughout about excess or selfishness or the need for validation being magnified by the ability to put things on social media...or shopping websites....lol....etc

    Is it a ground breaking record? A cynical commentary on our age masterpiece? Not quite...but I am enjoying time with this album in my musical sanctuary immensely....it's a nice bit of refreshing lemony sounds and sayings squeezed into my mostly metal, folk, prog audio meal and I really like it....because I'm not taking it seriously but really happily spooning it down too....as it were...

    Thanks Mr Wilson. Keep surprising your 'self' and us please....😎
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Progressive - but not as you know it
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2021
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    Steven Wilson - the King of Prog Rock? Progressive?
    The definition suggests that this mean something that continually evolves and, in this case, The Future Bites is a further evolution of Steven Wilson's music. A sound and message that is very much of today and will probably polarise opinion.
    I have loved Steven Wilson's music for many years and found him through Porcupine Tree. This album - in my opinion - holds its head up high amongst all of his previous solo and band efforts.
    There are some stunning tracks on it - King Ghost, Man of the People and Count of Unease to name but a few. Personal Shopper is the album's 'anchor track' and is probably the most 'contemporary' sounding one on the album - complete with driving Gorgio Moroder synth rhythms and ABBA-esque female backing vocals - even Elton John pops up with a clever voiceover midway through the track.
    The general concept behing the album is overt commercialism and social media subliminally driving how we think and act - and Steven's lyrics are ascerbic and clever.
    The soundscape and production is amazing and will be ear candy to all of those listeners who are fortunate enough to possess decent hi fi set ups. The only reason for 4, and not 5, stars is that it clocks in at just over 40 minutes and i would have like another couple of tracks on the standard CD version.
    A really enjoyable listen, The Future Bites may lose some diehard SW fans but will probably add even more new ones.
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  • Outastace
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another slice of Steven Wilson’s vision
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2021
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    Well, this is something of a departure, isn’t it? Another chapter in the ever-evolving career of Steven Wilson. You’ve got to give him credit for stretching the boundaries of so-called “prog rock.” It seems he’s moved on from the classic Porcupine Tree style - wonderful as it was - into something that manages to simultaneously combine numerous genres. For instance, the fourth track, 12 Things I Forgot, boasts a catchy tune and a Pink Floyd style female chorus - something that reappears throughout the album - to successfully update the PT/SW brand for the modern age.

    In many ways this track is classic pop with a customary Wilsonian twist and one that lovers of the artist’s short and long-form styles should appreciate. Eminent Sleaze, which follows, marries falsetto Prince-like vocals, a dirty bass riff resembling something off Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds, EuroDisco strings and stabs of Dark Side Of The Moon electric piano to produce a slithering, r’n’b workout. The chaotic guitar solo towards the end feels like a homage to Robert Fripp.

    Elsewhere, Man Of The People is a precise and quite lovely song that reminds me of a slowed down Tame Impala track with the kind of guitar work Kevin Parker seems to have abandoned. Again, Wilson’s falsetto is perfect for the beautifully ominous soundscape he has created. Personal Shopper, a treatise on rampant consumerism and the CD’s longest track, references Heaven 17 as it motors along powerfully, graced by that falsetto vocal, an earworm female chorus and the spoken words of Sir Elton John.

    In the end, The Future Bites requires perseverance if only to appreciate the many ideas Wilson uses to create music that in turn is poppy, heavy, electronic, soulful, disturbing, joyful and energetic. Fans of Porcupine Tree might claim it isn’t proggy or metallic enough while others might not like the use of a female chorus or journeys into r’n’b, but in the end this is a challenging and worthy addition to Wilson’s canon. I wouldn’t go as far as to say it is a masterpiece, as some reviewers have claimed, but I’m glad I have it in my collection. And I’m sure that repeated listenings will reveal more of Steven Wilson’s unique vision.
    STOP PRESS: After playing this album non-stop since I received it, here are some further thoughts: The Future Bites is every bit as relevant as Wilson’s earlier material. I rather like the falsetto voice that decorates some of the tracks - Man Of The People manages to be soulful and proggy at the same time, while Count Of Unease is blissfully beautiful, a languid reminder that Wilson is peerless at creating achingly simple melancholy. No one track may not have the widescreen appeal of Drive Home from The Raven That Refused To Sing but TFB is an engaging listen that reveals its brilliance over time. Highly recommended.
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  • HDF
    5.0 out of 5 stars 近未来的 ≒ 原点回帰
    Reviewed in Japan on 14 March 2021
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    新型コロナウイルスの影響により
    発売延期からの2021年作。

    今回のTFBという作品はTFBプロジェクトとして発表時から壮大なプロジェクトとしてツアーもその他も含め大きな動きを見せてくれるのだと楽しみにしておりました。

    実際聴いてみて、前作 To The Bone からのポップな Steven をより進め、完全なるポップスとなった印象であります。
    私は当時をリアルタイムで知りませんが Peter Gabriel の So の様なイメージです。

    過去作 Raven のように Jazz的即興による作曲でもないですし、H.C.E.のような創造性が爆発し昇華した芸術的世界観でもありません。

    To The Bone にてソロ活動の音楽の方向に賛否両論が生まれ始めたと思われますが、前作からの Steven の方向性が受け入れ難い方にはオススメはできないと思われます。

    しかし、作品を発表するたびに変化して行く Steven というアーティストが好みであるのならば今作もとても楽しめる作品かと思います。

    また、今まで Steven の音楽を知らなかった人などにはとてもアプローチしやすい作品であると思います。

    そして、今作を聴いて思った事は、
    TFBプロジェクトとしての意図。
    ヴィジュアルやMVからとても近未来的である印象を個人的にとても強く感じていました。

    少し話が逸れてしまいますが彼は映画が好きであるという事、音楽をやっていなかったら映画に関わりたかったという事。
    ドゥニ・ヴィルヌーヴ作のブレードランナー2049が好きであるという事をから今作のヴィジュアル上のみで行くと彼の映像的好みの色を強く感じました。

    しかし実際に１枚を通して聴いていると、近未来的ではあるけれど、PTの初期作品にも近く、Voyage 34 を思い起こしました。

    そんな近未来的であり原点回帰のようにも思える今作は PTも好きであり、Blackfield、no-manも好き、Steven のソロ活動も好き、これからも彼の活動を生涯追って行くであろうという方には間違いなくマストなアイテムになる事でしょう。

    プログレッシヴでありロックとしての Steven が好きな方は避けた方が良いかもれません。

    私も正直な所、 Raven や H.C.E. が大好きです。

    しかし今作のポップなエレクトロも Steven だからこそ聴きますし、聴く事で自分の音楽の好みも広がるので大歓迎です。
    むしろ若い年齢層からすると楽曲を聴いて単純に、カッコいい..となります。

    このTFBというプロジェクトが最終的にはどんな全貌を見せてくれるのかレコード発売後も彼の活動が楽しみです。

    きっと今後のTFBツアーにて楽曲達は更にアップデートされる事でしょう。

    まとまりなく長々と書きましたが、
    最後までお付き合い下さり有り難う御座いました。

    - - 追記です- -
    5/12/2021
    TFBのエンディング曲に収録予定であった新曲 Anyone But Me がシングルとしてリリースされました。
    発売延期としてから再検討した結果アルバムに収録しなかったとの事ですが、本人も今でも大好きだと言う楽曲であり、私もすぐに購入して聴きましたがとても良い楽曲でTFB本作との同時購入を強くオススメしたいです。

    今までのSW作品のエンディングらしさと真新しい形が混ざり合いとても力強く素敵な楽曲です。

    なにか映画のエンドロールのようなイメージが湧いてきます。

    そしてこの楽曲を聴くことでまたTFBの形が見えてきました。

    どこか胸を締め付けられる所がます。
    寂しくも悲しくもなります。

    なんだ、やはりSWはSWじゃないか、と、どこか安堵する自分と、今までとは違う力強さを感じワクワクする自分がいました。

    レビュー当初は星4と付けていましたが、シングル曲も含め改めてTFBへの想いが強くなり、とても感動いたしましたので星5のレビューへと改めます。

    今までの作品とはまた違う面白さ、深みのある作品に違いないと思います。
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  • Leonardo Tlacuilo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
    Reviewed in Mexico on 16 September 2025
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    Un gran disco. La calidad del producto es insuperable.
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  • Philby
    5.0 out of 5 stars Different is good!
    Reviewed in Australia on 28 September 2022
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    This one upset a lot of traditional SW fans. If you’re still expecting The Raven part 2 you’re probably going to be disappointed (again) but give this a listen and you’ll find a beautifully crafted album.
    As always the packaging, artwork and sound are superb.
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  • UFU
    5.0 out of 5 stars Esperanza en la música actual
    Reviewed in Spain on 17 March 2025
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    Lo mejor dentro de calidad sonora y se hace ahora. Mientras esté Steven Wilson, hay esperanza en la música.
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  • lowcki
    5.0 out of 5 stars Très bel album
    Reviewed in France on 25 November 2023
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    Reçu en avance sans dommage parfait !

    Très bien enregistré sur mon système le rendu est très bon

    Je recommande
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