{"id":41221,"date":"2023-10-02T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T04:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=41221"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T04:32:49","slug":"steven-wilson-releases-new-album-the-harmony-codex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2023\/10\/steven-wilson-releases-new-album-the-harmony-codex\/","title":{"rendered":"STEVEN WILSON Releases New Album THE HARMONY CODEX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Released everywhere now, THE HARMONY CODEX<\/b>\u00a0isn\u2019t like other records you\u2019ll hear this year.<\/p>\n

Endlessly fascinating, endlessly revealing, endlessly beautiful,\u00a0THE HARMONY CODEX<\/b>\u00a0is the seventh album from one of the country\u2019s most singular talents.<\/p>\n

Listening to\u00a0THE HARMONY CODEX<\/b>\u00a0is akin to losing oneself in an Escher drawing made purely with sound. Over the album\u2019s ten tracks, Steven Wilson navigates a tangle of memories and walks the listener down pathways where shadows cast by reflection, rumination and regret grow long.<\/p>\n

This codex is a vivid tapestry conceived and pieced together by an artist working alone in a studio tucked inside the garage of a North London town house, with assistance called in from musicians from all around the globe (including long time studio partners such as Ninet Tayeb, Craig Blundell and Adam Holzman alongside a host of first time collaborators including Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto and Interpol\u2019s Sam Fogarino). Each player was invited to add their individual stamp to the record. The snares, strings and sampled sounds each artist sent down the wires was woven in to make the music that starts the trip.<\/p>\n

And it is a trip. Constantly evolving over 65 minutes,\u00a0THE HARMONY CODEX<\/b>\u00a0starts with\u00a0Inclination<\/i>\u00a0– a track built on the foundation of a precision rhythm that\u2019s both mechanical and martial. As seemingly incongruous elements fall on top, the whole thing unfolds into with a swirl of mesmerising digital soul. From there, the record swoons on a wistful acoustic breeze (What Life Brings<\/i>) before crunching through with bone rattling tribal drumming and a subsonic bassline (Beautiful Scarecrow<\/i>). Elsewhere, stuttering drum loops are welded to spidery, scratchy gothic guitar lines (Actual Brutal Facts<\/i>), fragile electronics open out like the night sky from behind clouds (Economies of Scale<\/i>) and myriad instruments perform a mind bending, genre-flipping highwire act over ten minutes (Impossible Tightrope<\/i>). Time and again, the lyrics return to that map of memory, and those long, long shadows.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0THE HARMONY CODEX<\/b>\u00a0nods to records from Steven Wilson\u2019s recent past, at times echoing the paranoid rumble of 2008\u2019s\u00a0Insurgentes<\/b>, the crystalline electronics of 2021\u2019s\u00a0The Future Bites<\/b>\u00a0and the expansive storytelling of 2013\u2019s\u00a0The Raven That Refused To Sing (and Other Stories)<\/b>, here he has managed to create something entirely unique, a record that exists outside of the notion of genre. And although\u00a0THE HARMONY CODEX\u00a0<\/b>is a record made in with spatial audio in mind, it\u2019s not one that needs an elaborate sound system to lift you out of body – two speakers and an open mind will do just fine.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>THE HARMONY CODEX<\/b>\u00a0features:<\/p>\n

1 INCLINATION
\n2 WHAT LIFE BRINGS<\/a>
\n3 ECONOMIES OF SCALE<\/a>
\n4 IMPOSSIBLE TIGHTROPE<\/a>
\n5 ROCK BOTTOM<\/a>
\n6 BEAUTIFUL SCARECROW
\n7 THE HARMONY CODEX<\/a>
\n8 TIME IS RUNNING OUT
\n9 ACTUAL BRUTAL FACTS
\n10 STAIRCASE<\/p>\n

Out now via Virgin on CD\/2×12\u201d\/Deluxe boxset\/BluRay\/DL\/streaming.\u00a0<\/b>Buy The Harmony Codex here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Watch the videos for\u00a0<\/b>WHAT LIFE BRINGS<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>ECONOMIES OF SCALE<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0<\/b>IMPOSSIBLE TIGHTROPE<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0<\/b>ROCK BOTTOM<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0THE HARMONY CODEX<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n