Steven Wilson, fourtime Grammy nominee, multiinstrumentalist, 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 2009s exceptionally wellreceived Insurgentes. It is a modern homage to the late 60s and early 70s spirit of using the album as an artist039s primary means of expression combining jazz, classical and psychedelic music to create 34journeys in sound34.For me the golden period for music was the late sixties and early seventies, when the album became the primary means of artistic expression, when musicians liberated themselves from the 3 minute pop song format, and started to draw on jazz and 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. Theres everything from Ennio Morriconeesque film themes to choral music to piano ballads to a 23 minute progressive jazzinspired piece Steven Wilson34An immersive, ambitious project that demands repeated spins34 45 MOJO34prog rock wrung dry of nostalgia, perfect not for drowning but immersion34 45 Rolling Stone 34an album that can039t really be described, but it urgently calls to be heard34 810 Classic Rock039this is a magnificent step up he simply can039t stopped.039 Prog
