Steven Wilson 'December Skies' 7"

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).