The Harmony Codex
by Steven Wilson
- Type: Album
- Released: 29 September 2023
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:04:05
- Community rating: 3.65/5 from 10 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The progressive rock luminary crafts a highly cinematic and stylistically sprawling record that embraces spatial audio experimentation. Shifting fluidly between electronic minimalism, jazz-inflected rock, and sweeping art pop, the project functions as a massive, immersive sonic puzzle. It underscores his continued commitment to genre-defying composition and meticulous studio engineering.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, conceptual, complex, atmospheric, electronic
Tracklist
- Inclination (7:16)
- What Life Brings (3:39)
- Economies of Scale (4:18)
- Impossible Tightrope (10:44)
- Rock Bottom (4:24)
- Beautiful Scarecrow (5:21)
- The Harmony Codex (9:50)
- Time Is Running Out (3:58)
- Actual Brutal Facts (5:06)
- Staircase (9:26)
Credits
- Adam Holzman - music by, electric piano [fender rhodes], synth [modular synth], electric piano, soloist [including solo], electric organ [wurlitzer], synth, loops [modular synth loop], synthesizer, loops [dfam loops], soloist [moog solo]
- Ninet Tayeb - written-by, backing vocals, vocals, guitar
- Pat Mastelotto - drums, percussion
- Theo Travis - flute, saxophone, duduk
- Nathan Navarro - fretless bass
- Niko Tsonev - guitar [additional guitar], electric guitar, guitar, soloist [guitar solo], electric guitar, soloist [including solo]
- David Kollar - guitar, soloist [including solo], guitar [ambient guitar], guitar, soloist [guitar solo]
- Nils Petter Molv忙r - trumpet