Clutching At Straws (Vinyl)

Deluxe edition vinyl LP pressing. Following the multi-platinum success of Marillion's concept album Misplaced Childhood, the British quintet returned in 1987 with it's fourth studio album, Clutching At Straws. The album peaked at No. 2 on the U.K. charts, where it scored Top 40 hits with "Incommunicado," "Sugar Mice," and "Warm Wet Circles." Considered by many to be one of the neo-prog rocker's finest, Clutching At Straws would also turn out to be Marillion's final studio release with original singer Fish. The collection features a new version of Clutching At Straws remixed in 2018 by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh as well as a concert recording of Marillon performing in Scotland at the Edinburgh Playhouse in December 1987 during the group's final tour of Fish-era. It was mixed by Michael Hunter. In concert, the band plays songs that span it's entire career up to that point with "Garden Party" from it's 1983 debut Script for a Jester's Tear; "Kayleigh" from Misplaced Childhood (1985); and "Warm Wet Circles" from Clutching at Straws.

Track List

1. Hotel Hobbies
2. Warm Wet Circles
3. That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)
4. Going Under (Track Only Included on Original CD Version)
5. Just for the Record
6. White Russian
7. Incommunicado
8. Torch Song
9. Slàinte Mhath
10. Sugar Mice
11. The Last Straw
12. Happy Ending
13. La Gazza Ladra
14. Slàinte Mhath
15. Assassing
16. White Russian (Previously Released on Thieving Magpie)
17. Incubus
18. Sugar Mice
19. Fugazi
20. Hotel Hobbies
21. Warm Wet Circles
22. That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)
23. Pseudo Silk Kimono (Instrumental)
24. Kayleigh
25. Lavender
26. Bitter Suite
27. Heart of Lothian
28. The Last Straw
29. Incommunicado (Previously Released on Thieving Magpie)
30. Garden Party