Grace For Drowning, the new solo album from Steven Wilson is released next Monday (September 26th – Tuesday 27th in North America).
An 8 minute edit of Raider II, the 23 minute epic that is part of the album, is now streaming on the Grace For Drowning, mini-site and the Kscope soundcloud. A new video of Wilson in the studio recording the track has also been added to the site.
Steven Wilson is a twice Grammy-nominated producer, writer and performer, best known as founder and front man of British rock band Porcupine Tree. He has also produced and /or mixed albums for artists as diverse as Swedish metal band Opeth, Norwegian chanteuse Anja Garbarek, and progressive rock institution King Crimson. Last year, he also co-wrote and sang a track from Pendulum's number one album Immersion. Porcupine Tree's last album was a top 30 album in both the UK and USA, and the tour climaxed with sold out shows in October last year at Royal Albert Hall in London and Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Grace For Drowning is the second album released under Wilson's own name, and builds on the artistic inroads he forged with 2009's exceptionally well-received Insurgentes. A double album ('two 40-45 minute albums in the same package') Wilson has described it as "my biggest project to date".
Grace For Drowning, looks set to be equally well-received. Terrorizer have described it as 'a dense yet extremely coherent album, Grace For Drowning succeeds brilliantly... Prog album of the year, no less.' (5/5), Classic Rock have proclaimed 'Grace For Drowning is an album that can't really be described but it urgently calls to be heard' while Record Collector stated: 'there is an overwhelming sense of awe, a majestic soundscape created by an innovative, forward-looking musician immersed in the history of music... its epic vision will always reward revisits.'
Grace For Drowning, will be released on CD, vinyl and download along with a Blu-ray edition of the album. The Blu-ray disc contains the album in 5.1 surround sound with accompanying video content. The video content, created by long-term collaborator Lasse Hoile, as well as photo galleries, hand written notes and lyrics. A trailer for the Blu-ray is now online.
For the most avid collectors there is also a deluxe edition of the album. Limited to 5000 copies worldwide, the deluxe edition features 3 CDs, the Blu-ray Disc and a 120-page book. In addition to the album on 2CDs, the third CD features out-takes and demo material. All 4 discs will be packaged in a hard back book which features 120 pages of artwork and notes.
Please check the Grace For Drowning mini-site for pre-order links for all editions of the album. The mini-site also features Lasse's videos for Remainder The Black Dog, Index and Track One along with a free download, tour dates, album info and artwork.
The videos are also available on the Kscope iPhone app, which has been updated to include audio from the album along with pictures from the album and more. In addition to the videos for the tracks the app also features a series of short teaser videos created by Lasse Hoile. The app is free to download from the iTunes app store.
