Grace for Drowning
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SECOND ALBUM FROM STEVEN WILSON "An immersive, ambitious project that demands repeated spins" 4/5 MOJO Steven Wilson, four-time Grammy nominee, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and 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 and #3 in Germany. In 2017 he shot back into the charts with his fifth solo album To the Bone at #3 in the UK and #2 in Germany, which built on the success of fourth solo album Hand. Cannot. Erase., which reached #13 in the UK and #3 in Germany. Originally released in 2011, Grace For Drowning is the second solo album from Wilson. A more experimental and 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 60s and early 70s spirit of using the album as an artist's primary means of expression; combining jazz, classical and psychedelic music to create "journeys in sound". "prog rock wrung dry of nostalgia, perfect not for drowning but immersion" 4/5 Rolling Stone "the album of his career to date: a progressive masterpiece" 5/5 All About Jazz "a phenomenal recording" 8/10 PopMatters "an album that can't really be described, but it urgently calls to be heard" 8/10 Classic Rock
For prolific British progressive rocker Steven Wilson, the two-CD set Grace for Drowning is his second official solo album, following 2008's Insurgentes.
This review, over the course of the next few years, will become one of seemingly countless reviews of an album that involves British polymath Steven...