This Strange Engine

by Marillion

This Strange Engine cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 April 1997
  • Label: Intact
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:10:47
  • Community rating: 3.3/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Paula Savage, Mark Kelly, Steve Rothery, Phil Todd, Pete Trewavas, Steve Hogarth, Ian Mosley, Tim Perkins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Stepping away from grand, overarching concept albums, the British neo-prog veterans opted for a more relaxed, acoustic-leaning approach on their ninth studio effort. Characterized by lush, highly melodic pop-rock arrangements and Steve Hogarth's earnest, sentimental vocal delivery, the album concludes with an emotionally devastating, autobiographical fifteen-minute title track.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Man Of A Thousand Faces (7:33)
  2. One Fine Day (5:31)
  3. 80 Days (5:00)
  4. Estonia (7:56)
  5. Memory Of Water (3:01)
  6. An Accidental Man (6:12)
  7. Hope For The Future (5:10)
  8. This Strange Engine (30:24)

Credits

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