STEVEN WILSON – Transience (2015)
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Featuring songs recorded between 2003-2015, “Transience” is a personally curated vinyl only introduction to the more accessible side of STEVEN WILSON’s output, just released in UK to coincide with the second leg of the Hand. Cannot. Erase. tour.
Steven says: “In the past I mostly resisted requests from record labels to compile or anthologise, but this time I enjoyed the challenge of trying to sequence an album that would act as a more easygoing introduction to my music.
These are mostly the shorter song-based tracks (some represented by edits), so it’s perhaps the ideal way to introduce a friend or partner to Steven Wilson music without the more ‘difficult’ stuff getting in the way.
For once I have also given in to narcissism and put my face on the cover, without a gas mask or anything else obscuring it!”
As well as containing a few especially created edits to fit the ‘song format’, the album contains a new 2015 recording of ‘Lazarus’, which Steven has been performing on tour with his band recently. This new version is based on a live recording made earlier this year, later overdubbed in the studio.
Pressed as a three sided 180g heavyweight vinyl LP in a lavish gatefold sleeve with black and white portraits, the fourth vinyl side features an etching of the original handwritten lyric sketches for ‘Happy Returns’.
This is a strictly limited edition, one off pressing.
“Transience” contains 13 tracks and over 1 hour of music, and it’s a wonderful collection especially designed to new, casual listeners of Steven Wilson’s prog magic, and for those who likes song-format music.
It’s a very accessible and easy listening album highly recommended for all audiences.
01 – Transience (Single Version)
02 – Harmony Korine
03 – Postcard
04 – Significant Other
05 – Insurgentes
06 – The Pin Drop
07 – Happy Returns (Edit)
08 – Deform To Form A Star (Edit)
09 – Thank You
10 – Index
11 – Hand Cannot Erase
12 – Lazarus (2015 Recording)
13 – Drive Home
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