Steven Wilson releases incredible new album Requiem For A Village

Check out the incredible new album 'Requiem For A Village now

Steven Wilson’s ninth album Requiem For A Village is out today (6th November 2026) on Fiction Records. The album is available on CD, Blu-Ray, 140g two 12” black vinyl and picture disc. Limited amounts of signed CDs are available through Amazon, and CDs with exclusive packaging are available through HMV (oxblood 12” vinyl and the deluxe boxset featuring 2 CDs, Blu-Ray disc and 96 page hardback book box are both sold out).

Set in a Wicker Man landscape where the paintings of Stanley Spencer hang in the local art gallery, the stories of M. R. James and Algernon Blackwood sit on the shelves of the public library, and the children of the stones play in the market square, Requiem For A Village is a sepia-toned snapshot of a hidden neverland, and a 54-minute piece of cinema for the ears.

Recorded at home with contributions from regular collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Randy McStine, drummer Russell Holzman (on the tracks Requiem For A Village, Now Departing, A Basket Of Bees and Wheel) and vocalist Katherine Priddy (Murmuration), the album is intimate, ambitious, richly imaginative and knowingly eccentric, featuring a hugely compelling narration written by Andy Partridge (XTC) and voiced by one of the country’s finest actors, David Tennant.

Steven Wilson on Requiem For A Village: “I wanted to get back to a kind of music where you can hear the metaphorical thumbprints. Doubling down on the human gestures and flaws in the music, stuff that can’t be created using software. For example using only analogue synths with all their unpredictability, or not having instruments perfectly in tune. But it also lead to me picking up the violin, the oboe, or trying my hand on the drums – playing things I don’t really know how to play but getting something out of them that inspired me in ways I didn’t expect. Approaching the music with a sense of innocence and seeing where it took me. And where it took me was to the village.”

Steven Wilson will be part of a special one-off Rough Trade event at Bush Hall in London on 10th November. On the night, he will be in conversation with his friend Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) about Requiem For A Village and beyond. Steven will be signing copies of the album after the talk. The last few tickets are available here.

listen HERE

Requiem For A Village - track listing:

1. Swirl In A Lark’s Eye

2. Requiem For A Village

3. The Same River Twice

4. Now Departing

5. Hiraeth

6. On Chapel Slope

7. Murmuration

8. Cursus Fingerprint

9. A Basket Of Bees

10. Great Green Map

11. Wheel

12. The Old God Is Buried