SOUNDS GOOD Steven Wil son - The Future Bites

The Future Bites serves both as a prescient reminder of the pitfalls of capitalism and the healing capabilities of music. It’s an especially uncomfortable listen given lockdown has only accelerated our dependency on screens, social media and clickbait content. But listen we must, because Wilson’s message – one moment earnest liked on 12 Things I Lost, the next scathing like on lead single Personal Shopper – is essential right now.

His constantly evolving, mutant rock, looks to the future with disdain and confusion. Ultimately this a record about mankind’s blindness in the face of beauty. Wilson – described by one newspaper as “the most successful British artist you’ve never heard of” – puts it perfectly in the song Self: “Self sees a billion stars, but still can only selfregard”. (Review by

Alex Green)