STEVEN WILSON 8211 Grace For Drowning (2024 Repress) 8211 2LP 8211 Vinyl

2LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve.Critically acclaimed second album fromSteven 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 A1. Grace For Drowning (02:05)2. Sectarian (07:41)3. Deform To Form A Star (07:50) Side B1. No Part Of Me (05:44)2. Postcard (04:28)3. Raider Prelude (02:23)4. Remainder The Black Dog (09:26) Side C1. Raider II (23:21) Side D1. 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)