{"id":3192,"date":"2023-08-30T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2023-08-30T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:32:04","slug":"steven-wilson-harmony-codex-29sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/steven-wilson-harmony-codex-29sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Steven Wilson \u2013 <em>The Harmony Codex<\/em>, out 29 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/steven-wilson-the-harmony-codex\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2309\/StevenWilson.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Harmony Codex<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 the seventh solo album by <strong>Steven Wilson<\/strong> \u2013 takes you on a trip. A genre-spanning collection that opens up like a musical puzzle box, it presents a series of endlessly beautiful vistas that roll out and shift in front of you. Arguably the best album Wilson has made during a career that\u2019s spanned more than three decades both as a band leader and as a solo artist, it represents the apotheosis of a life spent fully absorbed in music.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>The Harmony Codex<\/em> nods to records from Wilson\u2019s recent past, at times echoing the paranoid rumble of 2008\u2019s <em>Insurgentes<\/em>, the crystalline electronics of 2021\u2019s <em>The Future Bites<\/em> and the expansive storytelling of 2013\u2019s <em>The Raven that Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)<\/em>, here he has managed to create something entirely unique, a record that exists outside of the notion of genre. And although <em>The Harmony Codex<\/em> is a record made with spatial audio in mind, it\u2019s not one that needs an elaborate sound system to lift you out of body \u2013 two speakers and an open mind will do just fine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>transparent orange vinyl<\/strong>, exclusive to physical record shops.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/steven-wilson-the-harmony-codex\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harmony Codex \u2013 the seventh solo album by Steven Wilson \u2013 takes you on a trip. A genre-spanning collection that opens up like a musical puzzle box, it presents a series of endlessly beautiful vistas that roll out and shift in front of you. Arguably the best album Wilson has made during a career&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,194,78],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer","tag-steven-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}