"For me the golden period for music was the late sixties and early seventies, when the album became the primary means of artistic expression, when musicians liberated themselves from the 3 minute pop song format, and started to draw on jazz and classical music especially, combining it with the spirit of psychedelia to create 'journeys in sound'. So without being retro, my album is a kind of homage to that spirit. There's everything from Ennio Morricone-esque film themes to choral music to piano ballads to a 23 minute progressive jazz inspired piece." - Steven Wilson