The Seventh House

by IQ

The Seventh House cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 2000
  • Label: Giant Electric Pea
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 57:06
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: John Jowitt, Michael Holmes, Peter Nicholls, Martin Orford, Paul Cook

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Written and recorded during a period of significant personal difficulty for the band members, this release is widely considered a deeply emotional masterpiece of British neo-prog. 'The Seventh House' features Martin Orford's sweeping, highly cinematic keyboard arrangements and complex, multi-part suites addressing themes of mortality and trauma.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, atmospheric, existential

Tracklist

  1. The Wrong Side Of Weird (12:24)
  2. Erosion (5:44)
  3. The Seventh House (14:26)
  4. Zero Hour (7:11)
  5. Shooting Angels (7:22)
  6. Guiding Light (9:58)

Credits

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