Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (2023)
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 353 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 147 MB
1:04:02 | Rock | Label: Spinefarm / Steven Wilson Productions
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 353 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 147 MB
1:04:02 | Rock | Label: Spinefarm / Steven Wilson Productions
Steven Wilson -"Harmony Codex" / Steven Wilson is an English musician and record producer. Currently a solo artist, he became known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the band Porcupine Tree. He has also worked with artists such acts as Opeth, King Crimson, Pendulum, XTC, Tears for Fears and Roxy Music. His honors include four Grammy nominations: twice with Porcupine Tree, once with his collaborative band Storm Corrosion and once as a solo artist. The Harmony Codex is his most ambitious album to date.
"It seems I'm miles above the surface of the earth/ I can see across the whole of London and beyond," intones Rotem Wilson over the hypnotic electronic pulsing of "The Harmony Codex," the title track of her husband Steven Wilson's seventh solo album. It's an evocative, widescreen scene that gives the listener a sense of the scale that Wilson is trying to achieve, along with being a moment of meditative pause in a record characterised by stylistic left-turns and surprises.
In the past 15 years, since launching a solo career parallel to his three-and-a-half decades fronting Porcupine Tree, Wilson has thematically conceived his albums: 2008's Insurgentes revisited the post-punk sounds of his teenage years; 2021's The Future Bites was shiny synth pop. Here he sounds untethered from any particular concept, resulting in his most eclectic and experimental offering to date.
Opener "Inclination" sets out his stall, moving from fidgety, Warp Records-styled electronica (replete with anxious, percussive breaths) to a sudden break ushering in Wilson's aching vocal, echoing that of Talk Talk's Mark Hollis on their landmark 1986 album, The Colour Of Spring. Wilson's proggy past resurfaces in the skittering jazz rhythms of "Impossible Tightrope" and the dreamy, Pink Floyd-like "What Life Brings." But, elsewhere, he seems intent on pushing himself in new directions.
If there's a sense of existential unease apparent in the Peter Gabriel-esque "Time Is Running Out" ("You had a panic attack midway through the flight"), there's also emotional balm on offer in "Rock Bottom"—a mutually reassuring duet, with Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb, that comes across like an even more desperate take on Gabriel and Kate Bush's raw and heartfelt 1986 hit "Don't Give Up".
The Harmony Codex never stays in one place for long, though. The climax of "Beautiful Scarecrow" shares some of its pummelling, industrial DNA with Massive Attack's Mezzanine album, "Actual Brutal Facts" finds Wilson successfully dabbling in pitch-shifted rapping, and the 9:27 trip that is closer "Staircase" is a multi-movement summation of all that has gone before. Overall, the lasting impression is that after realising the grand design that is The Harmony Codex, Steven Wilson can now go anywhere. © Tom Doyle
Tracklist
1 Inclination
2 What Life Brings
3 Economies of Scale
4 Impossible Tightrope
5 Rock Bottom
6 Beautiful Scarecrow
7 The Harmony Codex
8 Time Is Running Out
9 Actual Brutal Facts
10 Staircase
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Steven Wilson / The Harmony Codex
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EAC extraction logfile from 28. September 2023, 20:38
Steven Wilson / The Harmony Codex
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