Holidays in Eden

Holidays in Eden is the sixth studio album by the British band Marillion, released in 1991. It is their second with vocalist Steve Hogarth and has been regarded by many fans as a setback from their previous albums due to its mainstream-oriented sound and songwriting. It was recorded after the Seasons End tour which had lasted almost a year. Despite the band's obvious efforts to create a recording more appealing to mainstream media, thus attractin... more

Holidays in Eden is the sixth studio album by the British band Marillion, released in 1991. It is their second with vocalist Steve Hogarth and has been regarded by many fans as a setback from their previous albums due to its mainstream-oriented sound and songwriting. It was recorded after the Seasons End tour which had lasted almost a year. Despite the band's obvious efforts to create a recording more appealing to mainstream media, thus attracting new fans, Holidays In Eden could not compete regarding sales or chart positions with the band's first four studio albums from the 1980s. That said, it did not completely lack progressive rock elements, culminating as it did in a "triptych" of three linked songs, "This Town", "The Rakes Progress", and "100 Nights", documenting the narrator's decline into moral decadence. "Dry Land" was previously recorded by Hogarth's earlier band How We Live. The U.S. Version, released about 6 months after the original UK version, added 2 new tracks: "A... less