Steven Wilson has launched a website and released a short teaser trailer for his next studio album, Requiem for a Village, due November 6. The clip is narrated by actor David Tennant and carries the line “The village is alive. Welcome to the village.”
The site itself is the real centerpiece. It went live on September 8 built as a village parish council and community centre page, complete with deliberately dated web design straight out of the early internet. There are sections for hall hire and facilities, the parish council, clubs and societies, local services, events and the village fête, a photography page and a guestbook.
Read the noticeboard and the mood turns. Parish Council reminds owners that fixing on the standing stones is prohibited. The mobile library is suspended until further notice due to staff shortage. The village station runs the Larkstone Line at 11:06 daily, and all destinations end here. A local history volume was returned incomplete, with pages missing from the centre of the bundle.
One notice points at the release schedule. A “September observance” is listed for the 11th, location unknown, details to follow, which suggests the first single arrives this Friday.
The whole thing trades on a very specific strain of British folk horror, the world of Penda’s Fen, the 1970s children’s series Children of the Stones and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man. Wilson had already hinted at the direction back in March with a public call for photographs.
The album follows 2025’s The Overview and will be his ninth solo studio record, issued as a double LP and CD. Listening sessions were held for fans in May and June at the Polygon Portal in London’s Soho. Pre-order details are still to come.
Visit the site: requiemforavillage.com
Requiem for a Village Tracklist
- Swirl In a Lark’s Eye
- Requiem for a Village
- The Same River Twice
- Now Departing
- Hiraeth
- On Chapel Slope
- Murmuration
- Cursus Fingerprint
- A Basket of Bees
- Great Green Map
- Wheel
- The Old God Is Buried
Wilson and his band are also joined by the Parallax Orchestra and a full choir for expanded performances of The Overview at the Royal Albert Hall in London on October 28 and 29.
