Former Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson has announced a new solo album and will kick off its tour in Belfast and Dublin next March.

The follow up to 2015’s critically acclaimed Hand. Cannot. Erase, To The Bone is released on August 18 and is Wilson’s first on new label Caroline International.

“My fifth record is in many ways inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth - think Peter Gabriel So, Kate Bush Hounds of Love, Talk Talk’s Colour of Spring and Tears for Fears Seeds of Love,” Wilson said in a statement on his Instagram today.

First to be released from the album is ‘Pariah’, a duet with Israeli star Ninet Tayeb.

The To The Bone Tour will kick off at Belfast’s Mandela Hall on St. Patrick’s Day next year before hitting the Olympia in Dublin on 19 March.

Tickets from €32.50 including fees are on sale this Friday via Ticketmaster and usual outlets.