Steven Wilson - December Skies (Deluxe Edition 7")

Limited edition 7" single in gatefold sleeve with three SW Christmas Cards!

Embracing AI technology, Wilson has taken a bold leap into the unknown, collaborating with ChatGPT to create the lyrics for this heartfelt track, resulting in something uniquely him yet intriguingly new.

The track, originally written at very short notice as an experiment after a friend challenged Wilson to create a Christmas song, captures the loneliness and reflective beauty of the winter season, partly thanks to AI-assisted lyrics crafted in Steven Wilson's style.

"The knee-jerk reaction to AI is to consider it a threat to a musician like me, but it's clearly not going away, so this is my experiment to try embracing it and using it as a tool in the creative process. And of course, also to have some fun doing something I would never normally have thought about doing, the archetypal seasonal song. December Skies is the result, swiftly recorded over a weekend and written in collaboration with an Artificial Intelligence version of myself. I wonder what people will make of it. I wonder what I make of it." - Steven Wilson

Originally given a low-key release exclusively on Steven Wilson's Youtube channel last year, accompanied by a beautiful and appropriately AI-assisted video by Miles Skarin, 'December Skies' quickly and quietly racked up in excess of 200,000 views over a few days during last Christmas.

Now one year on, it is given a physical release in limited edition CD and 7-inch vinyl single formats, both featuring vocal and instrumental versions of the song and 3 exclusive Steven Wilson Christmas cards illustrated by Hajo Mueller (who also created the front cover).