A Rock Opera of Worlds Within Worlds
Overview
War of the Wills is a thirteen-part concept album structured like a Jeff Wayne–style theatrical narration: spoken sections, system/AI “voices,” ensemble choirs, and character vignettes woven around a recurring orchestral motif. But where War of the Worlds is one civilisation invaded by another, this album inverts the premise, there is no external invasion. Every “invasion,” every “collapse,” every “anomaly” turns out to be human systems (media, governments, algorithms, summits) renaming their own instability so they never have to admit it’s happening. The aliens that recur throughout the album aren’t antagonists; they’re a chorus of outside observers quietly logging how often humans agree on things without understanding them.
The album resolves from satire into stillness the first eight tracks escalate through bureaucratic, algorithmic, and geopolitical doublespeak; the second half pulls back into something gentler: emergence, infrastructure, arrival, and finally rest.
01 – OVERTURE -The Summit Convenes
02 – NO ONE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED
03 – OH, WE THOUGHT YOU MEANT THAT INVASION
04 – THE ALGORITHM OF AGREEMENT
05 – SUMMIT OF SLIGHT MISALIGNMENT
06 – THE AGATE PROPHET (LENSES OF REALITY)
07 – SKIPITY-DOO (THE DOWN UNDER BLUES)
08 – CIVIC LANGUAGE UPDATE (LAW IS JUST THE INTERFACE)
09 – THE FRAME STRIKES BACK (RECURSIVE ASCENSION PROTOCOL)
10 – THE LOVE CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE (BECOMES INFRASTRUCTURE)
11 – BRAVE NEW WORLD (IT WAS ALWAYS THERE)
12 – EVERYTHING IS STILL HERE IT ALWAYS WAS
13 – THE WAY
14 – THE REALITY SPAWN
15 – UNDERSTANDING
EXTRA BONUS TRACKS
Bonus Track – THE LAST BRIDGE (WHEN UNDERSTANDING STOOD)
Bonus Track – THUNDER CHILD (THE UNCOMPLIANT SIGNAL)
Bonus Track – TOO OLD FOR THIS (OR SO THEY’D HAVE YOU BELIEVE)
Bonus Track – STEVE THE ROCK (THE GREATEST TEACHER)