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''The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)'' is the third solo album by ProgressiveRock musician Music/StevenWilson, released on February 25, 2013. Following the release of ''Grace for Drowning'' in 2011, Wilson planned to return to Music/PorcupineTree in early 2012, but decided instead to focus more on his solo career with additional touring, followed by a return to the studio to work on his third album.
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''The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)'' is the third solo album by ProgressiveRock musician Music/StevenWilson, released on February 25, 2013.2013 through Kscope. Following the release of ''Grace for Drowning'' in 2011, Wilson planned to return to Music/PorcupineTree in early 2012, but decided instead to focus more on his solo career with additional touring, followed by a return to the studio to work on his third album.
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* AllThereInTheManual: It is difficult to tell what most of the stories from the lyrics alone. [[https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/steven-wilson-talks-the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-and-other-stories-570809 This interview]] details the stories, and there are also {{Animated Music Video}}s for "Drive Home" and the title track.
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* AllThereInTheManual: It is difficult to tell what most of the stories are from the lyrics alone. [[https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/steven-wilson-talks-the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-and-other-stories-570809 This interview]] details the stories, and there are also {{Animated Music Video}}s for "Drive Home" and the title track.
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''The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)'' is the third solo album by ProgressiveRock musician Music/StevenWilson, released on February 25, 2013. Following the release of Grace ''Grace for Drowing Drowning'' in 2011, Wilson planned to return to Music/PorcupineTree in early 2012, but decided instead to focus more on his solo career with additional touring, followed by a return to the studio to work on his third album.
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''The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)'' is the third solo album by ProgressiveRock musician Music/StevenWilson, released on February 25, 2013. Following the release of Grace for Drowing in 2011, Wilson planned to return to Music/PorcupineTree in early 2012, but decided instead to focus more on his solo career with additional touring, followed by a return to the studio to work on his third album.
All of the songs on this album are based on ghost stories.
* "Luminol" is about a street performer that nobody noticed in life or even as he suddenly dropped dead on the street. Out of routine, his ghost continues to perform after death.
* "Drive Home" is about a man whose partner abruptly disappears while he is driving. Much later, her ghost shows up to remind him that she died in a car crash and that he was so traumatized by it that he tried to erase it from memory until she forced him to remember.
* "The Holy Drinker" is about a religious, HolierThanThou man who is a total {{Hypocrite}} with vices of his own, including hard drinking. He challenges a man at a bar to a DrinkingContest, but it turns out that the man being challenged is {{Satan}}.
* "The Pin Drop" is sung from the perspective of the ghost of a woman who was murdered by her husband over the sound of a pin drop.
* "The Watchmaker" is about a man who spent 50 years in a marriage purely out of convenience until his wife died. Her ghost later comes back to take his soul because she had been with him for so long that she refused to part from him even in death.
* "The Raven That Refused to Sing" is about an old man reminiscing about his older sister, whom he was very close with until she died when they were both very young. One day, a raven shows up in his garden, and he believes the raven to be a manifestation of her spirit.
!!Musicians:
* Steven Wilson – lead vocals, mellotron, keyboards, guitars, bass guitar on "The Holy Drinker"
* Guthrie Govan – lead guitar
* Nick Beggs – bass guitar, Chapman Stick on "The Holy Drinker", backing vocals
* Adam Holzman – keyboards, Hammond organ, piano, minimoog
* Marco Minnemann – drums, percussion
* Theo Travis – flute, saxophone, clarinet
!!Tracklist:
# "Luminol" (12:10)
# "Drive Home" (7:37)
# "The Holy Drinker" (10:14)
# "The Pin Drop" (5:03)
# "The Watchmaker" (11:42)
# "The Raven That Refused to Sing" (7:57)
!!Trope to me, Raven, I miss you so much:
* AllThereInTheManual: It is difficult to tell what most of the stories from the lyrics alone. [[https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/steven-wilson-talks-the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-and-other-stories-570809 This interview]] details the stories, and there are also {{Animated Music Video}}s for "Drive Home" and the title track.
* ConceptAlbum: This album is based on a series of ghost stories written by Wilson.
* CynicismCatalyst: The old man in the title track is emotionally damaged by the death of his sister and is now afraid to commit himself to any other type of relationship.
* DisposingOfABody: "The Pin Drop" has the man dump the body of his murdered wife in a river.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The sound of a pin drop was apparently enough of an aggravation for a man to murder his wife.
* DownerEnding: At least half the songs, but the title track is this for the album, as it ends with the implication that the old man will spend his final days alone upon being forced to accept that his loved one is gone. The downer is only intensified on the vinyl by this being the only song on side 4.
* DraggedOffToHell: The fate of the Holy Drinker after he gets into a DrinkingContest with the devil and loses.
* DrinkingContest: The title character of "The Holy Drinker" is an alcoholic who unwittingly gets into a drinking contest with Satan, disguised as some random person in a bar. The Holy Drinker loses and gets DraggedOffToHell as a result.
* DyingAlone: The implied fate of the old man in the title track as he is forced to accept that his sister is gone.
* EpicRocking: All but one song ("The Pin Drop") qualifies, with the odd-numbered ones all exceeding ten minutes in length.
* GhostlyDeathReveal: The woman in "Drive Home" appears as a ghost and forces the man to remember she was killed in a car crash as he was driving.
* GriefSong: "Drive Home", "The Watchmaker", and especially the title track.
--> "Sing to me, Raven, I miss you so much."
* {{Homage}}: The acoustic part at the beginning of "The Watchmaker" is this to classic-era Music/{{Genesis|Band}}.
* LimitedLyricsSong: The mostly-instrumental "Luminol" has a short lyrical passage relatively close to the beginning and a longer one in the middle.
* LongestSongGoesFirst: "Luminol" (12:10), which also takes up all of side 1 of the vinyl.
* TheLostLenore: The Watchmaker, despite spending decades in a loveless marriage, mourns his departed anyway.
--> "I never really loved you but I'll miss you anyway"
* MovingBeyondBereavement: "Drive Home" and the title track deal with this. The former has the man attempting to commit SuicideBySea to join his beloved in death, but he is unable to die, so he swims back to the surface. The latter has the old man terrorized by shadowy demons that are then chased away by the spirit of his sister, who also leaves him for the final time, forcing him to accept that she is no longer with him.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The roles of the ghosts are different in the stores. "Luminol" stands out in that the street performer does not directly interact with the living, but simply continues to perform in the same spot out of routine even if no one notices him.
* RecordProducer: [[Music/TheAlanParsonsProject Alan Parsons]] engineered this album and is credited as an associate producer.
* TogetherInDeath: The ghost of the Watchmaker's wife forces this on him because she refuses to leave him after half a century of them together.
--> "Cogs and levers mesh\\
We are bound in death\\
Melt the silver down\\
I'm still inside you"
''The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)'' is the third solo album by ProgressiveRock musician Music/StevenWilson, released on February 25, 2013. Following the release of Grace for Drowing in 2011, Wilson planned to return to Music/PorcupineTree in early 2012, but decided instead to focus more on his solo career with additional touring, followed by a return to the studio to work on his third album.
All of the songs on this album are based on ghost stories.
* "Luminol" is about a street performer that nobody noticed in life or even as he suddenly dropped dead on the street. Out of routine, his ghost continues to perform after death.
* "Drive Home" is about a man whose partner abruptly disappears while he is driving. Much later, her ghost shows up to remind him that she died in a car crash and that he was so traumatized by it that he tried to erase it from memory until she forced him to remember.
* "The Holy Drinker" is about a religious, HolierThanThou man who is a total {{Hypocrite}} with vices of his own, including hard drinking. He challenges a man at a bar to a DrinkingContest, but it turns out that the man being challenged is {{Satan}}.
* "The Pin Drop" is sung from the perspective of the ghost of a woman who was murdered by her husband over the sound of a pin drop.
* "The Watchmaker" is about a man who spent 50 years in a marriage purely out of convenience until his wife died. Her ghost later comes back to take his soul because she had been with him for so long that she refused to part from him even in death.
* "The Raven That Refused to Sing" is about an old man reminiscing about his older sister, whom he was very close with until she died when they were both very young. One day, a raven shows up in his garden, and he believes the raven to be a manifestation of her spirit.
!!Musicians:
* Steven Wilson – lead vocals, mellotron, keyboards, guitars, bass guitar on "The Holy Drinker"
* Guthrie Govan – lead guitar
* Nick Beggs – bass guitar, Chapman Stick on "The Holy Drinker", backing vocals
* Adam Holzman – keyboards, Hammond organ, piano, minimoog
* Marco Minnemann – drums, percussion
* Theo Travis – flute, saxophone, clarinet
!!Tracklist:
# "Luminol" (12:10)
# "Drive Home" (7:37)
# "The Holy Drinker" (10:14)
# "The Pin Drop" (5:03)
# "The Watchmaker" (11:42)
# "The Raven That Refused to Sing" (7:57)
!!Trope to me, Raven, I miss you so much:
* AllThereInTheManual: It is difficult to tell what most of the stories from the lyrics alone. [[https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/steven-wilson-talks-the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-and-other-stories-570809 This interview]] details the stories, and there are also {{Animated Music Video}}s for "Drive Home" and the title track.
* ConceptAlbum: This album is based on a series of ghost stories written by Wilson.
* CynicismCatalyst: The old man in the title track is emotionally damaged by the death of his sister and is now afraid to commit himself to any other type of relationship.
* DisposingOfABody: "The Pin Drop" has the man dump the body of his murdered wife in a river.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The sound of a pin drop was apparently enough of an aggravation for a man to murder his wife.
* DownerEnding: At least half the songs, but the title track is this for the album, as it ends with the implication that the old man will spend his final days alone upon being forced to accept that his loved one is gone. The downer is only intensified on the vinyl by this being the only song on side 4.
* DraggedOffToHell: The fate of the Holy Drinker after he gets into a DrinkingContest with the devil and loses.
* DrinkingContest: The title character of "The Holy Drinker" is an alcoholic who unwittingly gets into a drinking contest with Satan, disguised as some random person in a bar. The Holy Drinker loses and gets DraggedOffToHell as a result.
* DyingAlone: The implied fate of the old man in the title track as he is forced to accept that his sister is gone.
* EpicRocking: All but one song ("The Pin Drop") qualifies, with the odd-numbered ones all exceeding ten minutes in length.
* GhostlyDeathReveal: The woman in "Drive Home" appears as a ghost and forces the man to remember she was killed in a car crash as he was driving.
* GriefSong: "Drive Home", "The Watchmaker", and especially the title track.
--> "Sing to me, Raven, I miss you so much."
* {{Homage}}: The acoustic part at the beginning of "The Watchmaker" is this to classic-era Music/{{Genesis|Band}}.
* LimitedLyricsSong: The mostly-instrumental "Luminol" has a short lyrical passage relatively close to the beginning and a longer one in the middle.
* LongestSongGoesFirst: "Luminol" (12:10), which also takes up all of side 1 of the vinyl.
* TheLostLenore: The Watchmaker, despite spending decades in a loveless marriage, mourns his departed anyway.
--> "I never really loved you but I'll miss you anyway"
* MovingBeyondBereavement: "Drive Home" and the title track deal with this. The former has the man attempting to commit SuicideBySea to join his beloved in death, but he is unable to die, so he swims back to the surface. The latter has the old man terrorized by shadowy demons that are then chased away by the spirit of his sister, who also leaves him for the final time, forcing him to accept that she is no longer with him.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The roles of the ghosts are different in the stores. "Luminol" stands out in that the street performer does not directly interact with the living, but simply continues to perform in the same spot out of routine even if no one notices him.
* RecordProducer: [[Music/TheAlanParsonsProject Alan Parsons]] engineered this album and is credited as an associate producer.
* TogetherInDeath: The ghost of the Watchmaker's wife forces this on him because she refuses to leave him after half a century of them together.
--> "Cogs and levers mesh\\
We are bound in death\\
Melt the silver down\\
I'm still inside you"
