STEVEN WILSON - Grace For Drowning (2023 Reissue) - 2LP - Gatefold Vinyl [APR 21]

2LP - Limited Edition Black Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. Critically acclaimed second album from Steven Wilson.

Steven Wilson, four-time Grammy nominee, multi-instrumentalist, producer & founder member of Porcupine Tree, released his critically acclaimed third solo album The Raven Refused To Sing in 2013, reaching #28 in the UK charts & #3 in Germany.

In 2017, he shot back into the charts with his fifth solo album To The Bone at #3 in the UK & #2 in Germany, which built on the success of fourth solo album Hand. Cannot. Erase., which reached #13 in the UK & #3 in Germany.

Originally released in 2011, 'Grace For Drowning' is the second solo album from Wilson. A more experimental & more eclectic record it built on the artistic inroads he forged with 2009's exceptionally well- received Insurgentes. It is a modern homage to the late 60's & early 70's spirit of using the album as an artist's primary means of expression; combining jazz, classical & psychedelic music to create "journeys in sound".

'For me the golden period for music was the late sixties & early seventies, when the album became the primary means of artistic expression, when musicians liberated themselves from the 3- minute pop song format & started to draw on jazz & classical music especially, combining it with the spirit of psychedelia to create "journeys in sound". So, without being retro, 'my album is a kind of homage to that spirit. There's everything from [Ennio] Morricone- esque flm themes to choral music to piano ballads to a 23- minute progressive jazz- inspired piece' - Steven Wilson

"An immersive, ambitious project that demands repeated spins" 4/5 - MOJO

"prog rock wrung dry of nostalgia, perfect not for drowning but immersion" 4/5
- Rolling Stone

"an album that can't really be described, but it urgently calls to be heard" 8/10
- Classic Rock

'this is a magnifcent step up; he simply can't stopped.' - Prog

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Grace For Drowning (02:05)
2. Sectarian (07:41)
3. Deform To Form A Star (07:50)

Side B
1. No Part Of Me (05:44)
2. Postcard (04:28)
3. Raider Prelude (02:23)
4. Remainder The Black Dog (09:26)

Side C
1. Raider II (23:21)

Side D
1. Belle De Jour (02:59)
2. Index (04:47)
3. Track One (04:15)
4. Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye (08:01)